642 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



patch by a subquadrate white spot ; costa between central fascia 

 and apex suffused with blackish, with five pairs of oblique whitish 

 strigulso ; beyond central fascia the disc is wholly suffused with 

 dark grey, except an ovate reddish-white patch on anal angle, 

 emitting a curved whitish line from its anterior end reaching half 

 across wing, and two sinuate whitish lines close together from its 

 apical end, meeting and terminating a little below apex ; some- 

 times a reddish- white mark on hindmargin below apex ; in female 

 these markings are often almost obliterated in the dark fuscous- 

 grey suffusion : cilia light reddish-fuscous, beneath anal angle 

 whitish, in female sometimes wholly whitish or wholly blackish- 

 fuscous. Hindwings fuscous-grey, hindmarginal edge darker ; 

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



A variable insect, ranging from light reddish-fuscous to dark 

 grey, but generally showing a small clear white spot on costa 

 before middle, and a whitish patch on anal angle ; some forms 

 recall the European Penth. profundana, F. 



Larva dull green, but undescribed ; feeding in rolled-up leaves 

 of Phyllanthus Ferdinandi, (a small tree belonging to the 

 Eupkorbiw&as) in December. 



Eather common on fences in Sydney, where the food-plant is 

 only grown in gardens, being a native of Queensland ; occurs in 

 January and February. 



2. Ant. sphserocosmana, n. sp. 



$ . 8^-". Head, palpi, antenna), and thorax ochreous, face and 

 outer side of palpi mixed with blackish, basal joint of antenna 

 blackish. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish-ochreous. Anterior 

 and middle legs whitish-ochreous, broadly banded with dark 

 fuscous ; posterior legs whitish. Forewings strongly dilated 

 posteriorly, costa slightly arched, considerably bent beyond 

 middle, apex obtuse-angled, hindmargin straight, not oblique ; 

 reddish-ochreous, slightly mixed with whitish-ochreous, and with 



