530 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



a line from costa at two-fifths very obliquely outwards to disc 

 beyond middle, sharply angulated and continued obliquely 

 inwards to middle of inner margin) dark reddish-ochreous-f uscous, 

 strewn with numerous small dark leaden-grey spots ; a dark 

 fuscous dot at the angulation ; a small cloudy dark reddish- 

 ochreous-fuscous spot, mixed with grey, on inner margin before 

 middle ; a suffused dark ochreous-grey cloud from apex to inner 

 margin at two -thirds : cilia dark fuscous-grey, with two blackish 

 lines. Hindwings light fuscous-grey spotted with darker ; cilia 

 grey, with two dark grey lines. 



A distinct and handsome species, characterised by the well- 

 marked contrast between the pale yellowish basal and dark 

 ochreous-brown apical halves of the fore wings ; allied to A. 

 arcuatalis, but broader-winged, costa more arched, and hindmargin 

 rather less oblique. 



One male beaten from a Banksia near Parrarnatta, New South 

 Wales, in March ; a second from Banksia spinulosa at Mittagong. 



3. Arotr. arcuatalis, Walk. 



fScopula arcuatalis, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat. (Pyral.) ; Eromene 



transcissella, ibid. Suppl. 1763). 



< ? . 7f-"-ll". Head and thorax whitish, shoulders whitish- 

 ochreous. Palpi very long, whitish, externally on sides pale 

 ochreous or reddish-ochreous. Antennae whitish-ochreous, basal 

 joint white. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs whitish, anterior 

 and middle tibiae and tarsi suifusedly banded with grey. Fore- 

 wings elongate, triangular, costa slightly arched near base, thence 

 nearly straight, hindmargin straight, oblique ; whitish, very 

 finely irrorated with grey, with reddish-ochreous markings ; a 

 dark reddish-ochreous streak from base beneath costa to one-third 

 thence bent obliquely downwards to centre of disc, and again 

 upwards to beneath costa at two-thirds, sometimes faintly con- 

 tinued to costa before apex ; the space between this line and 

 costa is grey, suffused with reddish-ochreous along costa, some- 



