494 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



11. Cac. amplexana, Z. 

 (Idiographis (?) amplexana, Z., z. b. V. 1875, 222 ; Caccecia vilis, 



Butler). 



$ $ , 7"-9". Head white. Palpi long, white, mixed with 

 dark fuscous on sides. Antennae dark fuscous, indistinctly 

 annulated with whitish. Thorax whitish, anterior margin some- 

 what suffused anteriorly with dark fuscous. Abdomen ochreous- 

 grey. Legs whitish, anterior and middle tibise and tarsi banded 

 above with dark fuscous. Forewings moderate, rather elongate, 

 hardly at all dilated, costa moderately arched towards base, 

 somewhat sinuate beyond middle, costal fold of male extending 

 from base hardly as far as one-third, apex somewhat produced, 

 hindmargin rather sharply excavated beneath apex, not oblique, 

 bowed below middle ; whitish, thinly strewn with scattered dark 

 fuscous scales in irregular transverse strigulse ; costa and inner 

 margin strigulated with dark fuscous ; basal patch represented 

 in male by a sharply-defined blackish-fuscous streak starting 

 from base beneath costa directly outwards, at one-fifth from base 

 rectangularly bent upwards and proceeding straight to costa at 

 one-third, in female by an internally suffused dark fuscous streak 

 starting as in male, but bent rather obliquely outwards at the 

 angulation, and again bent obliquely inwards before reaching 

 costa, ending on costa before one-fourth ; central fascia oblique, 

 from costa before middle to inner margin beyond middle, dark 

 fuscous, rather narrow, in male obsolete towards costa, in female 

 distinct throughout, anterior edge well-defined and dark-margined, 

 posterior edge suffused ; a triangular dark fuscous rather ill- 

 defined costal patch, extending from middle of costa nearly to 

 apex, from lower extremity of which proceed two cloudy fuscous 

 streaks, one obliquely inwards, meeting central fascia below 

 middle, the other to anal angle, outwardly curved near its 

 extremity ; a cloudy fuscous spot on hindmargin above middle, 

 marked on its anterior edge with two blackish dots : cilia grey- 

 whitish, becoming dark fuscous towards base on hmdinargin, 



