224 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



six round black spots very close together on hind-margin below 

 middle ; a violet-metallic line on base of cilia, broken into roundish 

 spots, especially towards apex ; rest of cilia smoky-fuscous. Hind- 

 wings and cilia dark fuscous. 



Quite of the same form as the preceding ; the forewings more 

 suffused with ochreous-whitish, and therefore paler, with an 

 additional black spot, the hind-wings wholly dark fuscous. 

 Several specimens taken by Mr. GK H. Baynor at Melbourne, 

 and also at Brighton in Tasmania, in January. 



AEOLOCOSMA, n.g. 



Head smooth; with ocelli; .tongue moderate. Antennae 

 shorter than forewings, filiform, in ^ ciliated. No maxillary 

 palpi. Labial palpi rather short, recurved, second joint with 

 appressed scales, terminal joint shorter, slender, acute. Fore- 

 wings elongate, moderately broad, costa slightly arched, apex 

 rounded, hind-margin very oblique, rounded. Hind- wings ovate- 

 lanceolate, narrower than fore-wings, pointed, cilia as broad. 

 Abdomen moderate. Legs moderate, posterior tibiae clothed with 

 long hairs. Fore-wings with 12 veins ; 7 and 8 stalked, to either 

 side of apex ; no secondary cell ; 1 simple at base. Hind- wings 

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



Allied to the preceding genus, and agreeing with it in the 

 palpi, and in the possession of the black hindmarginal spots 

 (though these are obscured in one species), but differing in the 

 strongly ciliated antennae of $ , the acute hind- wings, and the 

 different neuration. In these points the genus approaches more 

 nearly to the type of the Oecophoridce, from all of which family 

 it is at once distinguished by vein 1 of fore-wings not being 

 furcate at base, as well as by the secondary character of the 

 black hind-marginal spots. In markings and shape of fore- 

 wings the genus approximates to Eupselia. I have as yet only 

 two species, confined to Australia. The larvse are unknown. 



