222 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO -LEPIDOPTERA, 



bristles ; whitish, slightly tinged with greenish-grey ; a slender 

 irregular reddish-ochreous line on each side of dorsal space ; sub- 

 dorsal rather broader, darker reddish-ochreous, anteriorly 

 partially double, enclosing irregular spaces of ground-colour ; 

 spiracular slender, nearly straight, interrupted, reddish-ochreous ; 

 subspiracular similar, more interrupted; spots small, distinct, 

 blackish-grey ; head grey- whitish, with three longitudinal rather 

 broad pale amber stripes, mouth blackish ; second and anal 

 segments with markings obsolete, anal segment obliquely 

 flattened. When half -grown, all the markings are nearly obsolete, 

 the head and part of second segment blackish. Feeds in a long 

 rather sinuate swollen gallery within leaves of Eucalyptus, sp., 

 issuing by night through a hole and eating substance of leaf 

 outside ; by day remaining concealed in the gallery, but traversing 

 it with great celerity if disturbed ; found in August and September. 



Pupa long, slender, dull brown, wingcases short, whitish, 

 thorax almost angulated on shoulders ; quite naked, affixed by 

 the tail, stiffly and perpendicularly projected from the surface of 

 its attachment, so as to be actually standing erect upon its tail. 

 I had several of these pupse, which were all similarly fastened to 

 twigs and the sides of the glass containing them. 



Eups. theorella, n. sp. 



$ . 6". Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen light ochreous- 

 brown. Antennae ochreous-whitish, annulated with black. Legs 

 light ochreous-brown, anterior tibise and tarsi suffused with dark 

 fuscous, post tibise and tarsi pale ochreous-yellow. Fore-wings 

 elongate, hind-margin extremely oblique; ochreous-brown, 

 thickly irrorated with paler scales, becoming elongate hair-scales 

 towards lower portion of hind-margin ; about ten very obscure 

 and faint transverse streaks from costa, caused by the disappear- 

 ance of the pale scales, some of them faintly continued to inner- 

 margin ; two in middle of wing more distinct, rather divergent 

 on disc, confluent on inner-margin and forming there a transversely 



