210 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



inner-margin, interrupted on fold; an outwardly curved metallic 

 blue-purple line from of costa to anal angle, lower half 

 interrupted to form three spots near and parallel to hind- 

 margin ; lower f of space between this and central line strewn 

 with ochreous-whitish scales, especially towards inner-margin ; 

 beyond this line is a white outwardly oblique spot on costa, 

 emitting a faint band of transverse whitish strigulse along hind- 

 margin to anal angle, leaving three elongate black spots on 

 lower part of hind-margin ; beyond this band is an outwardly 

 oblique orange-ochreous subapical spot from costa ; cilia at 

 extreme apex black, beneath apex with an oblong transverse 

 snow-white spot, thence metallic blue-purple. Hind- wings deep 

 yellow, with a broad black margin ; cilia yellow, with a black 

 basal line. 



This richly adorned insect cannot be confused with any other. 

 Its habits are truly sun-loving ; it sports in the hottest sun-shine 

 over the tops of young trees of Acacia decurrens, to which it appears 

 certainly attached. Taken occasionally in New South Wales at 

 Parramatta, and at Waratah on the lower Hunter ; also at 

 Melbourne and Brisbane, from January to March. 



SIMAETHIS, Leach. 



Head smooth ; with ocelli ; tongue strong. Antennae about 

 half as long as fore- wings, filiform, in^ ciliated. No maxillary 

 palpi. Labial palpi moderately long, recurved, second joint 

 beneath with rough scales often forming a small apical projection ; 

 terminal joint compressed, rather shorter than second, blunt. 

 Fore-wings broadly-triangular, apex somewhat produced, hind- 

 margin slightly oblique. Hind- wings broader than fore-wings, 

 triangular, cilia short. Abdomen short, stout. Legs short, 

 broadly compressed, tibiae densely scaled. Fore-wings with 12 

 veins ; no secondary cell ; 1 furcate at base. Hind- wings with 8 

 veins ; 7 and 8 remote, 3 and 4 sometimes stalked or coincident. 



