60 [March, 



in April, 1S96, and he noticed the extraordinary spine on the hind 

 tibia?, and placed the species in his collection under the MS. name 

 mirnbilis. I have also taken it here, and at Kirtling, in April, May, 

 June and July, but it seems to be commonest in April. 



I know of no described species with the above characters, and it 

 seems hardly possible that any student of this group could have 

 overlooked the peculiar spine on the hind tibia?. 



Sussex Lodge, Newmarket : 

 January, 1902. 



AN AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF MICBOPTERYGIDJE. 

 BY E. METRTCK, B.A., F.Z.S. 



No species of the Family Micropten/gidce, so interesting from its 

 highly primitive character, has hitherto been recorded from Australia, 

 nor have I ever previously obtained one, though I now possess over 

 2000 species of Tineina from that region. On the other hand from 

 New Zealand, with 230 Tineina, I know of nine species of Micro- 

 pteri/qidce ; and as these latter are, from their invisibility in flight, 

 especially likely to be overlooked, no doubt more remain to be dis- 

 covered. The present species is nearly allied to a New Zealand one ; 

 and as there is a sufficiency of biological evidence to indicate a former 

 land connection between Queensland and the northern extremity of 

 New Zealand by way of New Caledonia, it seems refisonable to con- 

 clude that the close relationship of Palceomicra calliplaca from 

 Queensland and P. zonodoxa from the north of New Zealand points 

 in the same direction, and (from the figures quoted above) that their 

 place of origin is properly New Zealand. 



PALiEOMICRA CALLIPLACA, n. Sf. 



g 9 • 7 — 8 mm. Neuration as in P. zonodoxa, but vein seven of fore-wings 

 to apex. Head ferruginous. Palpi pale oehreous. Antennno dark grey, with basal 

 pale ferruginous band. Thorax whitish-yellow. Abdomen dark grey. Anterior 

 and middle legs whitish-oehreous, apex of joints black ; posterior legs dark grey, 

 apex of joints whitish-oehreous. Fore-wings suboblong, costa bent near base, 

 thence gently arched, apex acute, ternien extremely obliquely rounded ; bright deep 

 purple ; an elongate pale brassy-yellow median basal spot, extending to one-fifth ; 

 a rather narrow, straight, pale brassy-yellow fascia before middle ; apical third 

 strewn with pale brassy-yellow scales, sometimes forming a defined costal dot at 

 two-thirds ; cilia dark grey, round apex oehreous-white except at base. Hind-wings 

 rather dark grey, lighter anteriorly, sometimes purplish-tinged ; cilia grey. 



Eight specimens received from Dr. A. J. Turner, who took the 



