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236 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO -LEPIDOPTERA. 



I have followed Zeller in reuniting to Apliomia his genus 

 MeUssoblaptes, originally separated from the typical Aphomia by 

 the shorter discoidal cell of male, and not toothed basal joint of 

 antennae. The discovery of intermediate exotic species has 

 rendered this distinction untenable, although the extreme forms 

 are very diverse in appearance. A. latro, Z., described below, 

 was referred by him to Melissollaptes ; the other species are truly 



The genus contains few species, but occurs also throughout 

 Europe, North America, and in Japan. 



ApJi. tripartitella, n. sp. 



10--"-12V'- ? Head grey- whitish mixed with grey. Labial 

 palpi twice as long as head, horizontal, grey-whitish* tinged with 

 ochreous. Antennae grey- whitish, slenderly annulated witli black. 

 Thorax grey- whitish, more or less entirely suffused with dark 

 grey. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs whitish, beneath 

 scantily irrorated with blackish ; anterior and middle tibiee with 

 a slender blackish band before apex, joints of tarsi blackish 

 at base. Fore-wings broad, somewhat dilated, costa arched, 

 hind-margin rounded, oblique ; whitish-grey, tinged with greenish 

 and suffused with mixed brown, grey, and dark-grey scales 

 variable in intensity ; first line whitish, externally edged with 

 dark grey or blackish, from two-fifths of costa to two-fifths of 

 inner-margin, dentate, angulated outwards beneath costa, and 

 broadly arched outwards above fold; second line whitish, 

 internally edged with blackish, from f of costa to four-fifths of 

 inner margin, dentate or lunate, between and f- of its length 

 strongly arched outwards ; costa between first and second lines 

 irregularly blackish ; on disc midway between first and second 

 lines are two black dots, generally strong, longitudinally placed, 

 and a third less distinct immediately above them between the two; 

 cilia whitish-ochreous-grey, with cloudy grey parting-lines, and 

 chequered with two rows of subquadrate blackish spots. Hind- 



