222 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



dark fuscous ; cilia whitish-grey, with dark fuscous-grey parting- 

 line. 



Very closely allied to strigiferella, but smaller, costa somewhat 

 straighter, and distinguished by the peculiar suffusion and pale 

 patches of the fore- wings ; the sexes are precisely similar, whilst 

 in strigiferella they differ markedly. 



One pair, taken early in February near Sydney. 



The group of five closely allied species, to which this belongs, 

 conspicuous only by their dull colouring, do not come very close 

 to any European species of the genus ; they are perhaps nearest 

 to P. fusca, Hw. 



Pemp. oculiferella, n. sp. 



$ . 1 1"- 12". Head, palpi, and thorax, pale dull ochreous, with 

 a few scattered blackish scales, centre of thorax blackish ; labial 

 palpi longer than head, nearly straight, obliquely ascending ; 

 maxillary palpi ochreous-brown, tuft-like, nearly as long as labial 

 palpi. Antennae blackish, subdentate, finely ciliated, with a 

 long flattened tuft of black hair scales in basal sinuation. 

 Abdomen pale dull ochreous, thinly irrorated with blackish. 

 Legs pale ochreous, very densely irrorated with blackish. Fore- 

 wings elongate, moderately broad, gradually dilated, costa straight 

 until a little before apex, hind-margin rather oblique, slightly 

 rounded ; pale ochreous, along disc tinged with reddish-brown, 

 along costa and inner-margin rather broadly suffused with dark 

 fuscous, and irrorated with blackish and a few whitish scales ; 

 the inner-marginal shade is blackish at , where it includes a 

 small round pale ochreous spot, open above, containing a central 

 black-dot ; a short broad oblique blackish-fuscous apical streak ; 

 two small black discal dots at f , one directly above the other ; 

 veins posteriorly faintly shaded with blackish ; a hind-marginal 

 row of strong black spots : cilia fuscous-grey, with rows of 

 whitish points. Hind- wings fuscous-grey, paler towards base, 

 hind-marginal line dark-fuscous ; cilia whitish-grey, with dark 

 grey parting-line. 



