260 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



grey, tibise darker grey. Fore-wings dull whitish, with ochreous 

 and dark fuscous markings ; a small oblique cloudy dark fuscous 

 blotch on costa before , and a rather larger oblique dark 

 fuscous blotch from costa slightly before middle, reaching 

 across wing ; between second blotch and base the costa is 

 slenderly dark fuscous ; a much broader oblique dark blotch on 

 costa above , suffusedly truncate and reaching only across 

 wing ; two or three small irregular blackish-fuscous spots on 

 inner margin near base ; a cloudy dull ochreous streak along 

 fold, extending to anal angle where it is expanded into a cloudy 

 ochreous blotch, partially uniting with third costal blotch ; hind- 

 margin irregularly dark fuscous ; a small linear blackish apical 

 spot ; cilia whitish- ochreous, towards anal angle grey-whitish, 

 with a darker dividing line. Hind- wings and cilia rather pale 

 fuscous-grey, with a roundish black thickened spot of dense 

 scales (in <$ only ?) in disc close to base, visible on both surfaces, 

 on lower surface forming a raised hooked projection. 



Distinguished from both its congeners by the cloudy dark 

 fuscous markings ; it has somewhat the superficial appearance 

 of a Bucculatrix. Three $ 's taken amongst dry scrub at Sydney 

 and Brisbane, in September, October, and April. 



Ereun. iuloptera, n. sp. 



$ ? . 4"-5". Head and palpi white, labial palpi entirely 

 clothed with dense rough hairs, on sides mixed with ochreous- 

 fuscous. Antennae ochreous- whitish, slenderly annulated with 

 black. Thorax white, anteriorly suffused with ochreous. 

 Abdomen elongate, whitish-ochreous. Legs whitish-ochreous, 

 anteiior tibise dark fuscous, middle tibiae with dark fuscous 

 central and apical rings, all tarsi with dark fuscous rings at base 

 of joints. Fore- wings whitish, irrorated and irregularly suffused 

 with pale ochreous, with indistinct cloudy ochreous markings ; a 

 roundish spot at base of costa ; an oblique fascia-like spot from 

 } of inner margin, reaching more than half across wing, mixed 



