376 DESCRIPTIONS OF MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



dark markings, irregularly irrorated with blackish, especially to- 

 wards disc ; a narrow inwardly oblique slightly outwards-curved 

 blackish fascia from costa at \ to inner margin at \. before which 

 the basal space is suffused with dark grey ; a blackish triangular 

 spot on costa somewhat before middle, sharply denned anteriorly, 

 nearly reaching middle of wing ; a black dot in disc at ^, a second 

 obliquely rather beyond it on fold, and three others transversely 

 placed and usually united into a crescentic mark in disc beyond 

 middle ; a somewhat interrupted blackish-grey transverse line from 

 costa at | to before anal angle, sinuate beneath costa, angulated 

 outwards in disc, and again sinuate above inner margin ; a row of 

 dark fuscous dots in hindmargin : cilia whitish, with two grey 

 interrupted lines. Hindwings grey-whitish, posterior half suffused 

 with grey ; cilia whitish, greyer round apex, with a suffused grey 

 line. 



Very closely allied to the preceding, but smaller, with the head 

 clear whitish-ochreous, the markings of the forewings blackish and 

 sharply defined by the adjacent white suffusion ; the forewings do 

 not appear at all dilated. 



Sydney, in September ; found rather commonly on a fence 

 during a high wind. 



168. Neph. orescoa, n. sp. 



Media, alis ant. griseis, albido-irroratis, macula ad basim 

 obliqua, triangulo costa3 medio, punctis disci quinque, lineaque 

 postica flexuosa nigris ; post, dilute griseis, apice saturation. 



3 ?. 16^-19 mm. Head whitish mixed with grey. Palpi 

 whitish, terminal joint towards apex, and second joint externally 

 except at apex dark fuscous. Antennae grey-whitish. Thorax 

 whitish, mixed with grey, with a dark fuscous spot on shoulder. 

 Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Anterior and middle legs dark 

 fuscous, central ring of middle tibige and apex of joints obscurely 

 ochreous-whitish ; posterior legs ochreous-whitish. Forewings 

 elongate, costa gently arched, apex rounded, hindmargin very 

 obliquely rounded ; fuscous-grey, very finely irrorated with 

 whitish ; a narrow blackish basal j)atch ; its outer edge outwardly 

 oblique, from ) of costa to 5 of inner margin ; a suffused triangular 



