234 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 



Aner.psamatJieUa, n. sp. 



9^-". $ . Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi tlirice as long as 

 head, roughly-scaled, horizontally porrected, wMtisli-oclireous, 

 mixed on sides with dark fuscous. Antennae whitish-ochreous, 

 thickened, subdentate, finely ciliated, rather strongly sinuate 

 above basal joint. Thorax whitish-ochreous, irrorated with 

 darker. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs greyish-ochreous, 

 tarsi mixed with dark fuscous. Eore-wings elongate, moderately 

 narrow, costa markedly arched, apex rounded, hind-margin very 

 oblique ; greyish-ochreous, becoming much paler along inner- 

 margin ; all veins broadly indicated with ochreous-whitish ; a 

 few large black scales tending to form a transverse row a little 

 before hind-margin, and two or three other scattered black scales 

 towards inner-margin and base ; a row of nearly obsolete cloudy 

 fuscous dots on hind-margin : cilia ochreous-whitish, tips mixed 

 with dark fuscous. Hind- wings fuscous-grey, slightly paler near 

 base ; cilia whitish, with faint grey parting-line. 



One male taken at Sydney in December. *6o * ^^ ^*~e. 



EPIIESTIA, 6fn. 

 Epli. ficulella, Barrett. 



This species, closely allied to E. elutella^ and until recently 

 confused with it, is larger and darker than elutella, with the fore- 

 wings narrower at base and the costa posteriorly more rounded, 

 and the hind-wings possess only one tuft of yellow scales on the 

 upper surface in male, whilst elutella has two. I have taken it 

 in great profusion in a chemist's shop in Sydney in September, 

 but could not discover on what the larva had fed ; it usually lives 

 on figs and other dried fruits. The specimens are mostly larger 

 and finer than my English ones, and show distinctly the reddish- 

 ochreous longitudinal dashes towards the fold, but do not 

 specifically differ. 



