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DESCRIPTIONS OF MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



extending to inner margin, containing one or two darker spots, and 

 leaving a small white spot in disc beyond middle ; a broad inwardly 

 oblique ill-defined dark fuscous blotch from costa before apex, 

 sometimes confluent beneath with discal suffusion, lighter and 

 more suffused towards disc ; two or three small dark fuscous spots 

 near lower part of hindmargin : cilia white, towards tips mixed 

 with grey, on basal half barred with dark fuscous. Hindwings 

 rather light fuscous-grey ; cilia grey- whitish. 



Conspicuously distinct from all by the clear white ground colour, 

 and the dark inwards-curved transverse streak from near base of 

 inner margin. 



Sydney, in January ; three specimens at rest on tree trunks. 



143. Phloe. hanausa, n. sp. 



Media, alis ant. dilute ochreis, saturate fusco-nebulosis, maculis 

 costce duabus, tertia postica magna lineam transversam emittente, 

 quarta dorsi, antica punctisque disci tribus nigrsscentibus, puncto 

 disci ochreo-albido ; post, albido-griseis ; palporurn articulo apicali 

 incrassato. 



$ ?. 18-22 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, with a dark fuscous 

 spot above each eye. Palpi wholly dark fuscous, terminal joint 

 considerably thickened. Antennas fuscous. Thorax dark fuscous, 

 slightly mixed with pale ochreous, with whitish-ochreous lateral 

 and posterior spots. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs dark 

 fuscous, central ring of tibice, apex of all joints, and hairs of 

 posterior tibise whitish-ochreous. Fore wings elongate, moderate, 

 slightly dilated, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, hindmargin 

 obliquely rounded ; whitish-ochreous, coarsely irrorated with dark 

 fuscous, and irregularly suffused with light fuscous in disc and 

 towards base ; several small irregular dark fuscous spots at base ; 

 a suffused irregular dark fuscous spot on costa at ^, another 

 slightly beyond middle, and a third, larger and more suffused, on 

 inner margin before middle ; a small round dark fuscous spot in 

 disc at J, and a second on fold rather before it, more or less con- 

 fluent with dorsal blotch ; a third similar spot beneath costa about 

 middle, and a fourth in disc beyond middle, more or less absorbed 



