168 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTEBA, 



fuscous, tarsi with, white rings at apex of joints. Fore- wings 

 whitish, irrorated with dark grey-fuscous scales, especially towards 

 costa and apex, leaving an ill-defined whitish space along fold 

 from base to middle of wing, and with obscure black markings ; 

 a short central streak from base ; two large irregular discal spots 

 before and after middle ; some cloudy blackish spots beneath 

 costa ; a very oblique thick streak from f of costa nearly to hind- 

 margin, above which is a similar shorter streak, not reaching 

 costa ; a black curved transverse line across wing just before apex, 

 followed by a white line ; apical spot round, upper half white, 

 lower black ; cilia whitish round apex, with two black lines, 

 thence fuscous-grey. Hind-wings and cilia fuscous-grey. 



An obscurely marked species, of which the only specimen is 

 not very perfect, but certainly distinct from the preceding. One 

 specimen taken on Mount Keira, near Wollongong, in October. 



EPICEPHALA, n. g. 



Head roughly short-haired on crown, hairs longer and directed 

 forwards between antennae, face smooth ; no ocelli ; tongue 

 moderate. Antennae longer than fore-wings, slender, fiiliform, 

 basal joint compressed. Maxillary palpi rather-long, filiform. 

 Labial palpi moderate, somewhat drooping, cylindrical, second 

 joint with appressed scales. Fore-wings elongate, narrow, 

 tolerably evenly pointed. Hind- wings narrow-lanceolate, cilia 

 as broad. Abdomen elongate, in $ tufted, in ? with exserted 

 ovipositor. Legs moderate, slender. Fore-wings with 10 veins ; 

 4 branches to costa, no secondary cell, 1 simple. Hind-wings 

 with 7 veins ; 4 and 5 stalked, cell open. 



In general structure near Ornix, Z., though the head is not 

 quite so rough ; differs in the venation, and also in the peculiar 

 posture assumed in repose ; the imago rests with the head 

 appressed to the surface, the hind-part raised considerably and 

 seemingly to be supported on the posterior legs, the anterior and 



