380 DESCRIPTIONS OF MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



An inconspicuous but easily recognised species. 

 Wallaroo, South Australia, on coast sandhills at the beginning 

 of November ; two specimens. 



172. Neph. cethalea, n. sp. 



Minor, alis ant. saturate fuscis, disco cano-suffuso, punctis disci 

 sex lineaque postica transversa flexuosa nigrescentibus ; post, 

 saturate fuscis. 



$ . 12J-15 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, and legs 

 dark fuscous, slightly mixed with whitish ; hairs of posterior 

 tibise whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, costa slightly arched, 

 apex rounded, hindmargin nearly straight, oblique ; dark fuscous ; 

 disc more or less strongly suffused with white, obliquely extended 

 to costa at § ; sometimes some white scales towards hindmargin ; 

 a black dot in disc before middle, a second hardly beyond it 

 on fold, a third above middle, a fourth above and beyond second, 

 and two or three others transversely placed and confluent beyond 

 middle ; an indistinct darker outwards-curved line from £ of costa 

 to anal angle ; cilia grey, with an interrupted dark fuscous line. 

 Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia fuscous-grey. 



Differing from all but N. microschemu by the dark fuscous 

 hindwings and smaller size ; from iV. microschema it is easily 

 distinguished by the discal dots, which are arranged as in 

 N. foedatella. It has considerable superficial resemblance with the 

 larger Eulechria tanyscia. 



Mount Lofty range and Mount Gambier, South Australia, in 

 October and November ; four specimens. 



173. JVeph. microschema, n. sp. 



Minor, alis ant. saturate fuscis, partim albido-sparsis, punctis 

 disci tribus lineaque postica transversa flexuosa nigrescentibus ; 

 post, saturatius fuscis. 



$. U|-14 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, and 

 legs dark fuscous ; palpi internally ochreous-whitish. Forewings 

 elongate, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin 

 very oblique, hardly rounded ; dull fuscous, irrorated with dark 



