328 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



elongate-ovate, hindmargin slightly rounded, cilia f. Abdomen 

 moderate, strongly margined. Posterior tibise clothed with very 

 long dense hairs above. Forewings with vein 7 to apex, 2 from 

 somewhat befoie angle of cell. Hindwings normal. 



Probably a direct development from Eulechria, from which it 

 differs by the thoracic crest, and dilation of apex of second joint of 

 the palpi ; the $ of Oen. iobaphes closely approaches the group of 

 Eul. adoxella. 



I have three species, thus distinguished : — 

 la. Forewings with a cloudy pale anterior fascia.... 11 8. endochlora 

 lb. ,, without pale fascia. 



2a. Hindwings clear yellow 117. lactella 



2b. „ more or less suffused with fuscous... 119. iobaphes 



117. Oen. lactella, Walk. 



(Gelechia lactella, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 648.) 



Media, alis ant. saturatius griseis, macula plicse ante medium 

 punctisque disci quatuor nigris, macula anguli analis lineisque 

 duabus posticis transversis obsoletis saturatioribus ; post, ochreo- 

 flavis, apice ciliisque griseis. 



$ ¥. 20-23 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax dark grey, 

 base of palpi whitish. Abdomen ochreous-yellow. Anterior and 

 middle legs dark grey; posterior legs whitish-yellow, tarsal joints 

 greyish towards base. Forewings elongate, costa moderately 

 arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin very oblique, slightly 

 rounded ; rather dark slaty- grey, finely and irregularly irrorated 

 with bluish-whitish points ; a very ill-defined small roundish 

 blackish blotch on fold at J ; a faint dark fuscous spot on costa 

 at J ; a blackish dot in disc before middle, two others transversely 

 placed and nearly confluent beyond middle, and a fourth below 

 middle ; an irregular ill-defined blackish-grey blotch on anal angle ; 

 a very indistinct blackish-grey line from costa at |- obliquely 

 outwards, sharply bent in disc and terminating in anal blotch, and 

 another similar line intermediate between this and hindmargin, 

 both sometimes obsolete ; cilia grey. Hindwings clear ochreous- 

 yellow, extreme apex dark fuscous-grey ; cilia fuscous-grey. 



