488 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



costa and irregularly dilated beneath ; three small cloudy dark 

 fuscous spots on costa between middle and apex, the posterior 

 one emitting a cloudy inwardly oblique dark fuscous streak, 

 reaching half across wing ; a cloudy dark fuscous spot on hind- 

 margin beneath apex ; a cloudy dark fuscous spot on inner margin 

 before anal angle, sometimes obscurely connected with the central 

 costal spot ; sometimes the whole wing is suffused with fuscous, 

 so that all the markings are obliterated except the oblique streak 

 from inner margin near base, and the central costal spot : cilia 

 whitish-ochreous or brownish-ochreous, with an obscure dark 

 fuscous line. Hind wings light-grey, faintly spotted with darker, 

 in dark specimens entirely dark grey ;cilia whitish-grey, with a 

 dark grey line near base. 



The markings of this species are very dull and ill-defined, and 

 subject to variation from the suffusion of the ground-colour; but 

 it may apparently be always recognised amongst its immediate 

 allies by the strongly-marked oblique dark streak from inner 

 margin near base. 



I took four specimens (all males) in virgin forest near Hamilton 

 and Cambridge, on the Waikato, New Zealand, in January ; and 

 there are altogether four others in the British Museum, from 

 Auckland, under the various names quoted above. 



The type of Teras congestana, Walk., is very poor, and cannot 

 be given with certainty as referable to this species ; the other 

 synonyms certainly belong here. 



3. Cac. jactatana, Walk. 



(Batodesjactatana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat. 317 ; Sciaphila flexivit- 

 tana, ibid. 353 ; Padisca privatana, ibid. 382 ; Grapholitha 

 valuta, Feld., Eeise der Novara, PL cxxxvii., 39). 



8". Head and thorax fuscous ; palpi elongate. Fore wings 

 rather narrow, posteriorly dilated ; ochreous-fuscous ; costa 

 marked with small black spots ; a small ochreous space towards 



