144 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTEBA, 



the middle tibiae being quite slender. One specimen beaten from 

 forest near Dunedin, New Zealand, in January. 



Grac. plagata, Stt., Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., Vol. I., 3rd Ser. 



" 5". Head greyish-ochreous. Maxillary palpi white, spotted 

 with dark fuscous. Labial palpi white, base of second joint and 

 two spots on terminal joint dark fuscous. Antennae pale fuscous, 

 with darker annulations, basal joint pale ochreous-grey in front, 

 dark fuscous behind. Thorax greyish-ochreous. Legs white, 

 tarsi spotted with dark fuscous, anterior and middle tibiee dark 

 brown. Fore-wings greyish-ochreous, faintly olive, with an 

 oblique darker fascia beyond middle, followed by a large irregular 

 blue-black blotch ; before the apical black spot is a slender whitish 

 fascia, perpendicularly placed ; basal portion of wing rather 

 irregularly marbled with darker, the first defined marking being 

 the oblique fascia, which is anteriorly edged with blackish, and 

 broadest on inner margin ; the blotch beyond this begins on the 

 disc, sharply edged with black ; it then extends to the costa on 

 which it is of considerable breadth, enclosing a small costal spot 

 of the pale ground-colour ; it slopes gradually towards inner 

 margin, reaching it just at anal angle, its outer edge pretty 

 well defined with black scales and followed immediately by a 

 slightly oblique fascia of the pale ground-colour towards the costa 

 but much suffused towards inner margin ; this is followed by a 

 fuscous patch nearly of the colour of the central fascia, intersected 

 by an oblique, black streak, beyond which is the slender, 

 perpendicularly placed, dark-margined white fascia ; a minute, 

 black apical spot; cilia olive-brown, paler towards tips, intersected 

 by two blackish lines, on inner-margin dark grey. Hind- wings 

 dark grey, cilia grey." 



The above is Stainton's original description, accompanied by a 

 figure, and taken from a single specimen, said to be from the 

 neighbourhood of Brisbane. The species appears to be somewhat 

 allied to syringella, F., and intermediate between the two main 



