462 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LFPIDOPTERA, 



base resting on the whole posterior half of inner margin, dark 

 fuscous mixed with blackish, its anterior edge concavely angulated, 

 its posterior edge straight, so that it appears to dilate strongly 

 from the middle downwards ; a narrow dark fuscous black- 

 margined fascia from two-thirds of costa (where it encloses a small 

 whitish costal spot) to hindmargin above anal angle, attenuated 

 beneath ; a blackish elongate streak from apex along upper half 

 of hindmargin : cilia greyish-ochreous, mixed with whitish 

 towards anal angle, suffused with blackish towards apex, along 

 hindmargin obscurely barred with blackish. Hindwings in male 

 pale fuscous-grey, in female rather darker, cilia pale grey with 

 a darker basal line. 



An obscure-looking species, readily distinguished from the 

 following by the absence of the clear white markings ; it is also 

 rather broader- winged, and has nearly the form of Cap. sordidatana. 



I have as yet only met with this species in Queensland ; I took 

 seven specimens at Brisbane, Rosewood, and Toowoomba, (in the 

 latter case at an elevation of 2,000 feet,) in September, amongst 

 subtropical thickets. 



2. Asth. conjunctana, Walk. 



fSciaphila conjunctana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat. 348.) 

 <$ . 5^"-6", Head, palpi, and thorax greyish-fuscous mixed 

 with dark fuscous, thorax with a pale spot on back. Antenna? 

 greyish-fuscous. Abdomen dark grey. Legs whitish, suffused 

 above with dark fuscous, all tarsi dark fuscous with white rings 

 at apex of joints. Forewings dilated, costa slightly arched, hind- 

 margin oblique ; light greyish-fuscous, mixed with paler scales 

 towards anal angle, irrorated with dark fuscous ; costa and inner 

 margin coarsely marked with blackish ; a distinct narrow whitish 

 transverse rather oblique fascia from one-third of costa to inner 

 margin before middle, angulated outwards above middle, 

 suffusedly margined with brownish-ochreous mixed with black 

 in middle ; a short transverse white streak from costa at two- 



