216 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO -LEPIDOPTERA, 



I have thought it well to redescribe from Australian and New 

 Zealand specimens this species, which is well-known in Europe, 

 doubtless its home. The same species (subject to local variations) 

 has been recorded also from South Africa and South America. 

 In New South Wales it occurs round Sydney, at Shoalhaven, 

 Murrurundi, Blackheath (3,600 feet), and Bowenfels, but rather 

 sparingly ; also at Melbourne, and in Queensland at Eosewood 

 and Toowoomba ; always more or less casually. In New Zealand 

 however, I met with it on the swampy thistle-grown plains at 

 Hamilton, on the Waikato, in immense profusion, swarming on 

 the thistle-blossoms in the sunshine, in January. In Australia 

 it occurs from September to January. 



In Europe the larva feeds on Inula ; probably in other parts of 

 the world it is not restricted from other Composites ; in New 

 Zealand at least it must certainly feed on the thistle. 



I do not see any tangible difference between Australian, New 

 Zealand, and South European specimens. 





 EUPSELIA, n. g. 



Head smooth ; with ocelli ; tongue moderate. Antennae much 

 shorter than fore-wings, filiform, simple. No maxillary palpi. 

 Labial palpi short, recurved, not reaching vertex, second joint 

 with appressed scales, terminal joint slender, acute. Fore- wings 

 elongate, rather broad, costa gently arched, apex rounded, hind- 

 margin oblique, rounded. Hind-wings elongate-ovate, as broad 

 as, or slightly narrower than fore-wings, cilia moderate. Abdomen 

 moderate. Legs moderate, posterior tibiae clothed with long hairs, 

 anterior tibiae sometimes thickened with scales. Fore- wings with 

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

 with 8 veins ; 3 and 4 from posterior angle of cell. 



The only larva as yet known is sixteen-legged, slender and 

 active, and mines in galleries in leaves, with peculiar accessory 

 habits ; pupa naked, erect, attached by the tail. 



