450 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO -LFPIDOPTERA, 



Mr. Gr. H. Raynor took two specimens (male and female) at 

 Warragul in Gippsland, Victoria, in December. 



5. Cap. melancrocana, n. sp. 



$ $ . 7 "-8". Head and palpi dark fuscous, in female mixed 

 with pale grey. Antenna) dark fuscous, slenderly annulated 

 with whitish. Thorax pale grey, anterior margin broadly dark 

 fuscous. Abdomen pale ochreous-grey. Legs whitish, anterior 

 and middle tibiae dark fuscous, all tarsi dark fuscous with whitish 

 rings at apex of joints. Fore wings moderate, somewhat dilated, 

 especially in male, costa in male rather strongly arched, some- 

 what bent in middle, in female moderately arched towards base, 

 hindmargin oblique ; pale whitish-grey, with very faint transverse 

 lines of pale purplish-grey and sometimes of blackish scales ; 

 costa and inner margin strongly strigulated with blackish ; basal 

 patch represented in male by a broad blackish outwardly oblique 

 streak from one fourth of inner margin, reaching half across 

 wing, in female obsolete ; central fascia oblique, from before 

 middle of costa to inner margin at two-thirds, dark fuscous, 

 sharply margined with blackish, in male obsolete on costa, in 

 female distinct throughout, upper half narrow, lower half 

 abruptly and broadly dilated, the posterior margin being suddenly 

 bent out in middle ; a semicircular dark fuscous-grey blackish- 

 margined patch on costa at two-thirds ; a small irregular dark 

 fuscous blotch near hindmargin above anal angle, connected 

 with hindmargin by a blackish line ; a strong black line along 

 hindmargin : cilia pale whitish-grey, suffused with reddish- 

 ochreous along hindmargin, with a blackish line near base. 

 Hindwings pale grey, spotted with darker ; cilia pale grey, with 

 a darker basal line. 



Distinguished from all other species of the genus by the 

 character of the sharply-defined dark fuscous-grey black-margined 

 markings on a pale grey ground ; a very similar type of colour- 

 ing is found in Caccecia lythrodana. 



