448 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



3. Cap. vacuana, Walk. 



(Concliylu vacuana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 367 ; Grapholita 

 mutatana, ibid. 393.) 



<$ $ . 5"-7". Head blackish-fuscou.s, becoming greyish- 

 ochreous behind, especially in female. Palpi blackish-fuscous. 

 Antenna) whitish-ochreous, in female annulated with dark fuscous. 

 Thorax whitish-ochreous, sometimes anteriorly greyish-fuscous. 

 Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs ochreous-whitish, anterior 

 and middle tibiee and tarsi suffused with dark fuscous. Fore- 

 wings rather elongate, costa in male moderately arched, in 

 female rather straighter, hindmargin straight, very oblique ; 

 pale whitish-ochreous, irregularly mixed with ochreous, costa 

 and inner margin irregularly strigulated with dark fuscous ; 

 basal patch represented only by five or six irregularly scattered 

 blackish dots ; central fascia very oblique, from before middle of 

 costa to inner margin before anal angle, dark fuscous, narrow, 

 not dilated, clearly defined and black-margined ; costa in male 

 narrowly dark fuscous towards base ; a small dark fuscous black- 

 margined triangular spot on costa at two-thirds, from apex of 

 which proceeds a slender blackish line to anal angle ; another 

 slender blackish line crosses the wing between this and apex ; a 

 sharply-marked blackish hindmarginal streak from beneath apex 

 to a little above anal angle : cilia pale ochreous, with a dark 

 grey apical spot, and dark fuscous basal line becoming obsolete 

 towards anal angle. Hind wings and cilia whitish-grey, some- 

 what darker posteriorly. 



Immediately recognisable from the allied species by the 

 blackish-fuscous head ; it is a rather neatly marked insect, some- 

 what resembling Dich. clarana. 



Common and generally distributed ; it occurs near Sydney, 

 Parramatta, and Bulli, in New South Wales ; near Melbourne ; 

 at Launceston in Tasmania; and at Brisbane, Helidon, and 



