454 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



connected with the costal patch, in female obliterated ; a blackish 

 interrupted hindrnarginal line : cilia pale ochreous, paler towards 

 anal angle, with a darker basal line. 



This species shows a good deal of variability in size, and in 

 distinctness of marking ; some of the forms approach very closely 

 to C. cliimerinana, but always differ in the pale ochreous face, 

 and in the possession of a distinct blackish longitudinal mark in 

 the middle of the central fascia. From C. sordidatana it is 

 distinguished by the narrower forewings, the incomplete indica- 

 tions of a basal patch, and the generally lighter and less suffused 

 ground-colour. 



I took the species commonly amongst scrub near Dunedin and 

 Christchurch, New Zealand, in January ; and later in the same 

 month three specimens of a small and more variegated form in 

 the swampy forest near Hamilton, on the Waikato River ; these 

 latter were probably a second generation. 



Walker's types of Sciapliila detritana and Tinea admotella are 

 exceedingly poor in condition, but appear to be correctly referred. 



0. Cap. sordidatana, n. sp. 



$ ? . 6"-8". Head greyish-brown, face paler. Palpi dark 

 fuscous, internally whitish. xlntennse whitish-ochreous, an- 

 nulated with dark fuscous. Thorax greyish- brown, suffused with 

 dark fuscous. Abdomen ochreous-grey, anal tuft of male dull 

 whitish mixed with grey. Legs ochreous-whitish, anterior tibiee 

 suffused with dark fuscous, anterior and middle tarsi banded with 

 dark fuscous. Forewings moderately broad, in male short, 

 dilated, costa rather strongly arched and bent before middle, 

 hindmargin straight, oblique, in female more elongate, costa 

 strongly but evenly arched towards base ; dull reddish-grey- 

 brown, irregularly mixed with pale greyish-ochereous scales ; 

 costa and inner margin coarsely and obscurely strigulated with 

 blackish, often partially suffused ; basal patch small, obscure 



