494 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



Allied to preceding, but easily recognisable 

 Melbourne, Victoria ; two specimens in October. 



210. Phil, chionoptera, n. sp. 



Media, alis ant. niveis, vitta costse angusta u trim que attenuata 

 ochrea vel fusca, ? linea media e basi in apicem percurrente 

 ochrea, ciliis niveis ; post, albido-griseis. 



(J. 20-22 mm., $. 24-26 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, 

 abdomen, and legs white. Forewings elongate, costa moderately- 

 arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin very obliquely rounded ; 

 snow-white; a slender costal streak, in <J rather dark fuscous, 

 in ¥ ochreous, from near base to near apex, finely attenuated 

 towards base ; in $ an indistinct brownish-ochreous longitudinal 

 median line from base to apex : cilia white. Hindwings whitish- 

 grey, in $ sometimes rather darker • cilia whitish. 



In colouring the <J nearly resembles the same sex of P. pro- 

 ductella, but may be immediately separated by the much more 

 arched costa, and wholly white cilia of the forewings ; the females 

 of the two species are however, markedly dissimilar both from 

 the males and from each other, nor are the species in fact closely 

 allied. 



Newcastle, New South Wales ; locally abundant in January. 



211. Phil hydara, n. sp. 



Major, alis ant. <J latiusculis, ? longis, dilute griseis, $ partim 

 cano-sufTusis, punctis disci quinque obsoletis saturate fuscis ; post. 

 <J albido-griseis, ? saturates griseis. 



(J. 24-27 mm., $ 29-35 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, 

 and abdomen whitish, in ¥ greyish-tinged. Legs dark grey, 

 posterior tibiae whitish. Forewings in $ moderate, suboblong, 

 in $ elongate, costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, hind- 

 margin very obliquely rounded ; in $ grey- whitish, irrorated with 

 ochreous-grey, in £ grey, with scattered dark fuscous scales ; 

 inner margin and a streak beneath costa from base to middle very 

 suffusedly and indistinctly darker ; an indistinct dark fuscous dot 

 in disc at £, a second beneath it on fold, a third above middle, and 



