146 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO -LEPIDOPTERA, 



terminal joint dark fuscous. Antennao ochreous-white, becoming 

 obscurely dark fuscous at apex. Abdomen above fuscous-grey, 

 beneath white with black rings. Legs white; anterior and 

 middle tibiae somewhat thickened, base narrowly and apex broadly 

 black, tarsi with two black rings ; posterior tibiae stiff -haired 

 above, with median and apical black bands, tarsi with bases of 

 joints narrowly and centres of first and second joints broadly 

 black-banded. Fore-wings greyish-ochreous, irrorated with 

 blackish, along costa suffused with blackish, with three fasciae 

 and two spots, white spotted with black and edged with black 

 scales ; first fascia at , perpendicular, broader on inner margin 

 and suffusedly produced on inner margin towards base, containing 

 costal, discal, and dorsal black spots ; the basally produced portion 

 projects across disc close to base, between which and the fascia is 

 a white dot below costa ; second fascia from costa slightly before 

 middle, outwardly oblique, evenly broad, irregularly margined, 

 containing large subcostal and discal black spots, and a few black 

 scales on inner margin ; third fascia from costa slightly before f , 

 parallel to second, narrower, and partially interrupted on disc, 

 containing large subcostal black spot ; a small irregular partially 

 black-centred costal spot at ; a rather large apical spot, con- 

 taining a few black scales ; cilia dark fuscous-grey, with a blackish 

 line round apex. Hind-wings dark fuscous, cilia fuscous-grey. 



Somewhat allied to the preceding, but distinguished from all 

 by the black spots in the white fasciae ; quadrifasciata, Stt., from 

 India (bred from Urena lolataj seems from the figure to be an 

 allied species. One specimen on a fence near Sydney in June. 



Q-rac. tricuneatella, n. sp. 



$ ? . 4". Head and palpi snow-white, apex of maxillary palpi 

 dark fuscous ; labial palpi with apex of second joint and a sub- 

 apical ring of terminal joint dark fuscous. Antennae longer than 

 fore-wings, dark fuscous with faintly paler annulations, basal 

 joint white. Thorax greyish-ochreous. Abdomen dark fuscous, 



