500 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



A fine and distinct species. 



Blackbeath (3500 feet), new South Wales; rather common in 

 October and November, seeming to be attached to Banksia. 



220. Phil. adaptatella, Walk. 



(Oecophora adaptatella, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat. 689 ; Oecophora 

 propriella, ibid. 691.) 



Media, alis ant. flavis, vitta costali nivea, altera subcostali 

 saturate rufa, inferius niveo-marginata, signo disci postico angulato 

 fusco ; post, griseis. 



$ 2- 22-27 mm. Head yellow. Palpi white, second joint 

 externally dark fuscous. Antennae whitish. Thorax dark 

 fuscous, posterior margin narrowly pale yellow. Abdomen 

 whitish-yellowish. Legs dark fuscous, posterior pair whitish- 

 yellowish. Fore wings elongate, moderate, costa moderately 

 arched, apex round pointed, hindmargin faintly sinuate, oblique ; 

 bright yellow, deeper and more ochreous posteriorly ; a snow- 

 white costal streak from base almost to apex, beneath which 

 is a broad dark reddish-ochreous-brown streak reaching to apex, 

 margined beneath by a suffused snow-white streak, becoming 

 obsolete towards extremities ; an irregular angulated suffused 

 fuscous mark in disc beyond middle, sometimes partially obsolete, 

 apex pointing to anal angle : cilia dark grey, becoming white 

 at tips and round apex, yellowish on costa. Hindwings grey, 

 apex darker, base paler and yellowish-tinged ; cilia whitish- 

 yellowish. 



Allied to the preceding, but conspicuously distinct. 



Brisbane, Queensland ; Sydney, Blackheath (3500 feet), and 

 Shoalhaven, New South Wales ; common from September to 

 January, certainly attached to Banksia. 



221. Phil, brochosema, n. sp. 



Major, alis ant. niveis, vitta subcostali, altera infra medium, 

 ciliisque saturate fuscis ; post, griseis. 



(J. 27 mm. Head yellow. Palpi dark fuscous, internally 

 whitish. Antennae dark fuscous. Thorax dark fuscous, with a 

 small white lateral spot. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs dark 



