428 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



elongate-triangularly scaled, terminal joint distinct. Forewings 

 rather triangular, costa rather abruptly arched near base, in male 

 broadly folded towards base, apex nearly rectangular, hind- 

 margin rather oblique, straight. Hind wings elongate-trapezoidal, 

 narrower than forewings, apex somewhat produced. Forewings 

 with veins 7 and 8 stalked, vein 7 running to hindmargin. 

 Hindwings with veins 3 and 4 remote at origin, 5 approximated 

 to 4 at base, 6 and 7 stalked. 



Differs from all the genera with veins 3 and 4 of hind wings 

 remote at base, and 7 and 8 of forewings stalked, by the narrow- 

 ness of the hindwings, which are distinctly less broad than the 

 forewings, an unusual character in the group. The long ciliations 

 of the antennae in the male also afford a good characteristic. 



1. Arist. chrysophilana, Walk. 

 (Caccecia chrysophilana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat. 315.) 



< $ . 6"-6". Head and palpi bright ochreous. Antenna) 

 ochreous-whitish, annulated with dark fuscous. Thorax reddish- 

 ochreous. Abdomen brownish-ochreous, becoming dark fuscous 

 posteriorly. Legs ochreous-whitish. Forewings in male deep 

 reddish-ochreous, brighter and lighter towards inner margin, in 

 female reddish-ochreous-brown ; a small semi-ovate yellowish- 

 white blotch on middle of costa, posteriorly enclosing or cut by 

 a small reddish-ochreous costal spot ; two very irregular trans- 

 verse leaden-metallic lines from costa at one-third to inner 

 margin, sharply angulated above middle ; before them are some 

 faint metallic scales nearer base ; two other brighter leaden- 

 metallic transverse lines from the white costal blotch, very 

 irregular, angulated, broken and interrupted beneath costa, the 

 anterior one divided into several spots ; two leaden -metallic lines 

 from costa a little before apex, uniting shortly below costa and 

 thence continued to hindmargin above anal angle ; a leaden- 

 metallic apical mark, sometimes separated into three spots : cilia 

 yellowish-white, on anal angle ochreous. Hindwings yellow, 



