532 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



ill-defined dark grey cloud, more or less suffused with reddish- 

 ochreous, in middle of disc, confluent with costal suffusion ; the 

 reddish-ochreous suffusion is sometimes more or less distinctly 

 produced to base, and extends to costa : cilia whitish-grey, with 

 two dark fuscous-grey lines. Hindwings pale fuscous-grey ; 

 cilia whitish-grey, with a fuscous-grey line near base. 



This and the two following species are very closely allied 

 together, and differ from the three preceding by their small size, 

 and narrow wings, with more oblique hindmargin. A. lividana, 

 differs from both A. confusana and A. atimana by the always 

 perceptible reddish-ochreous discal suffusion, more whitish 

 groundcolour, and grey marginal suffusion. 



Six specimens taken at Sydney and Bulli, New South Wales, 

 and near Brisbane, Queensland, in September and October ; this 

 and the two following species all seem to frequent species of 

 Banksia, and their larvae probably feed in the same way as A. 

 arcuatalis. 



5. Arotr. confusana, Walk. 

 (Padisca confusana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 381). 



<. 5"-5V'- Head and thorax whitish-grey. Palpi long, 

 whitish-grey mixed with darker. Antennae whitish-grey. 

 Abdomen whitish-grey, towards base and at apex whitish-ochre- 

 ous. Legs whitish, anterior and middle tibieo and tarsi suffusedly 

 banded with dark fuscous. Fore wings moderately elongate, costa 

 moderately arched, hindmargin straight, oblique; whitish- 

 grey, irrorated with darker ; costa and inner margin obscurely 

 strigulated with dark fuscous-grey ; an indistinct somewhat 

 triangular dark fuscous-grey spot on inner margin at one-third ; 

 an outwardly oblique dark fuscous-grey streak from costa at one- 

 third, reaching half across wing ; a rather broader oblique wedge- 

 shaped dark fuscous-grey spot on middle of costa, meeting a small 

 white spot in middle of disc, which is connected with inner 

 margin beyond middle by an indistinct dark fuscous-grey cloud ; 



