266 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO -LEPIDOPTERA, 



Erech. acontistes, n. sp. 



<$ ? . 5"-7%". Head white, sides of crown ochreous- 

 f uscous. Palpi white, labial palpi with second joint and base of 

 terminal joint externally ochreous-f uscous, both clothed with 

 rather loosely appressed hairs, apex of second joint with two 

 or three projecting bristles above. Antennae dark ochreous- 

 f uscous. Thorax dark ochreous-brown, with a central longitudinal 

 white stripe. Abdomen greyish-ochreous. Legs whitish, anterior 

 tibiae and tarsi dark fuscous above, middle tarsi suffused with 

 fuscous, posterior tarsi with dark fuscous rings at base of joints. 

 Fore-wings brownish-ochreous, darkest towards costa ; a white 

 central longitudinal streak from base to f of disc, somewhat 

 attenuated at both ends, lower edge straight and sharply 

 margined by a cloudy streak of blackish scales which is continued 

 to apex of wing ; two very oblique white streaks from costa, 

 first from middle, second from , extending almost to hind- 

 margin ; between them is a small cloudy white spot on disc, 

 often confluent with the second ; a slender white streak along 

 hind-margin from beneath apex to anal angle ; a blackish 

 suffused apical spot, above which is a white spot, and sometimes 

 anteriorly white-margined ; cilia white, with a blackish dividing- 

 line before middle, the intercepted basal portion brownish- 

 ochreous, and with another entire blackish dividing-line beyond 

 middle, and two others beyond it only visible on middle of hind- 

 margin ; beyond the second dividing-line at apex is a sub-quadrate 

 blackish spot, forming a short blunt hook, being margined 

 beneath by a short wedge-shaped indentation in the cilia. Hind- 

 wings pale fuscous grey, cilia whitish, with two indistinct blackish 

 lines round apex. 



Nearly allied to the following species, but easily known by 

 the white head, and pale grey hind-wings ; the markings are 

 very similar, but clearer. Common at Blackheath on the Blue 

 Mountains (3,600 feet), and also occurring on the Bulli Pass, 

 and at Parramatta, in September and October, and again in 



