180 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO -LEPIDOPTERA, 



oclireous, tarsi with, black rings at base of joints. Pore-wings 

 brownish-ochreous mixed with paler, with suffused darker ochreous 

 brown markings ; an obsolete cloudy spot on costa beyond middle ; 

 a rather larger cloudy spot, suffused with blackish scales, on 

 middle of inner-margin ; apical spot minute, linear, black ; cilia 

 brownish-ochreous round apex, with scattered blackish points, 

 whitish-grey on hind-margin. Hind-win^s fuscous-grey, cilia 

 pale grey. 



Smaller than the two following species, and distinguished 

 generally by the obsoleteness and suffusion of the markings on 

 the brownish-ochreous fore-wings. One specimen bred in March 

 from a single larva found at Sydney in February. 



Larva of the typical form, pale dull green, head pale brownish ; 

 feeds on the under side of the leaves of Eucalyptus sp., (probably 

 tereticornisj, (MyrtaceaJ, gnawing the surface of the leaf. Pupa 

 in a firm, white, longitudinally five-ribbed cocpon. 



Bucc. lassella, n. sp. 



$ . 3". Head brownish-ochreous, with a pale stripe on 

 each side of crown, and mixed with fuscous hairs ; face whitish- 

 ochreous. Antennae whitish, with strong black annulations. 

 Thorax brownish-ochreous irrorated with paler. Abdomen and 

 legs pale brownish-ochreous, tarsi with distinct black rings at 

 base of joints. Fore-wings whitish-ochreous, finely irrorated 

 with dark fuscous scales, and with brownish-ochreous ill-defined 

 markings ; a central streak from base nearly to middle ; two short 

 broad oblique streaks from costa, first in middle, second at f , 

 produced to apical spot ; a fuscous oblique spot on inner-margin 

 beyond middle, and extreme edge of inner-margin more or less 

 distinctly brownish-ochreous ; apical spot irregular, black ; cilia 

 ochreous-whitish round apex, with irregular'rows of black points, 

 pale grey on hind-margin. Hind-wings fuscous-grey, cilia rather 

 paler. 



