154 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



with slender ring near base. Antennre longer than fore-wings, 

 pale ochreous-brown, darker towards apex, basal joint yellow in 

 front, crimson above. Thorax crimson, with a white central streak. 

 Abdoman dark fuscous, at base ochreous, beneath white. Legs 

 whitish ; anterior tibiae crimson, apex suffused with dark fuscous, 

 middle tibiae somewhat thickened, almost tufted at apex, crimson 

 with yellow basal and median bands, all tarsi with dark fuscous 

 rings at apex of joints. Fore-wings crimson, paler and partially 

 suffused with yellow along costa, especially beyond middle, with 

 a basal streak, six costal and four dorsal streaks, and a spot on 

 fold white, partially suffused with yellow ; basal streak very short, 

 irregular, dark-margined, its extremity produced through centre 

 of wing to middle as a dark fuscous line ; first and second costal 

 streaks irregular, very oblique, white, not margined; third 

 elongate-triangular, very oblique, not margined ; fourth irregular 

 black margined ; fifth short, less oblique, strongly black margined, 

 the black margins continued to anal ; costal space between fourth 

 and fifth yellwish- white ; sixth short, black margined, not oblique, 

 black margins produced to hind-margin and diverging; first 

 dorsal spot at base, very small ; second small, opposite first costal, 

 obtuse-triangular, white, black edged in front on inner-margin ; 

 third before middle, yellow, very broad on inner-margin, very 

 much contracted on fold and proceeding as a very oblique white 

 dark-margined streak to disc ; fourth yellow, very broad on inner- 

 margin, extending from middle to anal angle, obtuse-triangular, 

 apex dark-margined ; a round white spot on fold between second 

 and third, not touching either ; hind-margin suffused with dark 

 fuscous except within the two pairs of dark streaks from costa ; 

 apical spot round, black ; cilia crimson at apex, yellow on hind- 

 margin, thence dark fuscous, with a crimson subapical hook. 

 Hind- wings and cilia dark grey. 



Stainton's description clearly includes both this insect and the 

 succeeding species, which is very closely allied to it ; they are 

 however certainly distinct. His figure seems to be taken from a 



