498 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



attenuated in middle almost or quite to a black line, beneath the 

 attenuated portions becoming suddenly confluent into a large 

 subquadrate black-margined patch ; a somewhat sinuate blackish 

 line from costa a little before apex to hindmargin above anal 

 angle ; a blackish line from costa a little before apex to hind- 

 margin above anal angle ; a blackish line along hindmargin : 

 cilia cinereous-grey, extremities beyond a blackish line white. 

 Hindwings fuscous-grey spotted with darker ; cilia whitish- 

 grey, with two dark fuscous-grey lines. 



A conspicuously distinct species, characterised by the two dark 

 grey black-margined fasciae on a pale grey ground, with their 

 lower portions 'confluent in a large blotch ; the white expansible 

 tuft of the palpi in male is also a peculiar character, to which an 

 analogy is found in the genus Acroceuthes. 



I took six specimens in the bush at Blackheath in the Blue 

 Mountains, New South Wales, (3,600 feet,) in February. 



16. Oac. miserana, Walk. 



f Teras miserana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Oat. 301 ; Teras canigerana, 

 ibid., 301 ; SciaphUa debiliana, ibid. 351 ; Teras absumptana, 

 ibid. Suppl. 1780). 



# 7"-8", $ 8V'-9". Head, palpi, and thorax grey-whitish 

 mixed with dark grey. Antennae grey-whitish. Abdomen 

 whitish-grey. Legs whitish, anterior and middle tibiae and tarsi 

 banded with dark fuscous. Fore wings moderate, posteriorly 

 somewhat contracted, costa moderately arched towards base, in 

 male bent before middle, costal fold broad, extending from base 

 to middle of costa, hindmargin obliquely rounded ; whitish, 

 transversely irrorated with grey ; costa and inner margin strigu- 

 lated in male with dark fuscous, in female with cinereous-grey ; 

 a small dark grey black-margined spot on costa at one-fourth in 

 male, in female represented by a smaller grey mark ; a cloudy 

 grey spot on inner margin at one-third, in some specimens of 

 male larger and blackish-grey, sometimes suffused at apex into 



