172 AUSTRALIAN GELECHIANAE 
APROOPTA MELANCHLAEINA 1. SP. 
pehayydawos, black-cloaked: 
3g. 24 mm. Head and thorax blackish.  Palpi 
blackish with a few whitish scales. Antenne blackish ; 
ciliations in g 3. Abdomen pale-grey. Legs fuscous ; 
posterior pair whitish. Forewings rather narrow, costa 
gently arched, apex rounded, termen very obliquely 
rounded ; blackish, towards termen with slight whitish 
admixture ; cilia blackish. Hindwings and cilia pale-grey. 
Type in Coll. Goldfinch. 
N.S.W., Katoomba, in October ; one specimen. 
