444 DESCRIPTIONS OP AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



irrorated with fuscous on margins. Abdomen pale ochreous. 

 Legs whitish-ochreous, anterior and middle tibiae and tarsi 

 suffused with dark fuscous except at apex of joints. Forewings 

 triangular, costa slightly bent before middle, apex very slightly 

 produced, hindmargin oblique ; light greyish-ochreous at base, 

 becoming ochreous in middle, shading into dark reddish-ochreous- 

 brown along hindmargin, where it appears to form a broad 

 suffused band ; the whole surface of the wing is strewn with 

 numerous small obscure spots of pale leaden scales ; costal fold 

 dark fuscous ; costal edge very narrowly white from extremity 

 of fold to a little before apex : cilia reddish-ochreous-brown, at 

 anal angle fuscous-grey, extremities white. Hindwings whitish- 

 grey, spotted with darker grey, apex darker ; cilia whitish-grey, 

 with a darker basal line. 



A very distinct species ; I took one specimen amongst scrub 

 near Wellington, New Zealand, in January. 



11. CAPUA, Steph. 



Thorax smooth, or slightly crested. Antennae in male 

 thickened, somewhat dentate, strongly ciliated. Palpi moderate 

 or rather long, straight, porrected, second joint triangularly scaled. 

 Forewings short, subtriangular, costa in male with broad basal 

 fold, bent before middle, thence nearly straight, hindmargin 

 oblique, hardly rounded ; in male often with an expansible tuft 

 of hairs beneath costal fold. Hindwings rather elongate, broader 

 than forewings. Forewings with veins 7 and 8 stalked, vein 7 

 running to hindmargin. Hindwings with veins 3 and 4 from a 

 point or short-stalked, 5 moderately approximated to 4 at base, 

 6 and 7 stalked. 



This genus forms the type of a group characterised by veins 

 3 and 4 of hindwings rising from the same point, 7 and 8 of 

 forewings springing from the same stalk, and the presence of the 

 costal fold in the male. It differs from the other Australian 

 members of the group, Asthenoptycha and Acroceuthes, in the 



