DESCRIPTIONS OP AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



Immediately recognisable from its Australian allies by the 

 orange hind- wings ; it comes nearest to S. taprobanes, Z., from 

 Ceylon, which has similar hind-wings, but distinct ferruginous- 

 orange markings on the fore-wings. The imago appears in March 

 and again (apparently a second brood) in May, flying in the sun- 

 shine for about half-an-hour at sunset round Ficus stipulata, a 

 climbing fig grown commonly over garden walls in Sydney, and 

 native in tropical Australia. Larva slender, cylindrical, greyish- 

 ochreous marbled with rather darker ; dorsal brownish-ochreous, 

 irregular ; head pale ochreous. Feeds in a web within partially 

 folded leaves of Ficus stipulata, in February and April. Pupa 

 pale olive-greenish, in an elongate spindle-shaped firm white 

 cocoon, placed on upper surface of leaf beneath a flat white 

 covering web. 



Sim. melanopepla, n. sp. 



. 6"-6"' Head and thorax deep ochreous-brown, irrorated 

 with whitish scales in irregular transverse lines. Palpi white at 

 base, second and terminal joints clothed each with three whorls 

 of black white-tipped scales. Antennae black, annulated with 

 white. Abdomen deep ochreous-brown, segmental margins with 

 a few white scales. Legs dark fuscous , densely irrorated with 

 white ; middle and posterior tibiae densely clothed with hair-scales 

 expanded in whorls in middle and at apex ; tarsi white with four 

 black bands. Fore-wings strongly dilated, hind-margin slightly 

 waved ; dark fuscous, tinged with ochreous towards base, more 

 blackish posteriorly, with cloudy whitish markings caused by the 

 aggregation of black white-tipped scales ; a few scales at base, 

 and a slender transverse fascia near base ; a broad nearly straight 

 transverse band at , and a very broad rather outwardly curved 

 band from f of costa to before anal angle, the two bands almost 

 confluent on lower half, leaving a triangular blackish costal spot ; 

 an orange -ochreous streak on costa near apex, continued round 

 apex along hind-margin to anal angle ; cilia fuscous, black at 

 base, with a paler line. Hind-wings blackish-fuscous, rather 



