656 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



5. Stigm. floricolana, n. sp. 



$ ? . 3"-4". Head, antennae, and thorax dark fuscous, face 

 and palpi whitish-ochreous. Abdomen blackish-fuscous, beneath 

 ochreous-whitish. Legs grey-whitish, tarsi sufl'usedly banded 

 with dark fuscous. Forewings moderate, costa hardly arched, 

 hindmargin rather oblique ; dark fuscous, with a slight golden 

 tinge ; costa with short oblique black strigulse, between which 

 near apex the costal cilia are shortly ochreous-white ; the wing 

 is crossed by numerous irregular very faint leaden-metallic lines, 

 often obsolete ; cilia silvery-grey, towards base silvery- whitish, 

 with a black basal line. Hind wings dark fuscous, darker towards 

 hindmargin ; cilia grey-whitish, with a dark fuscous line near 

 base. 



Characterised by the entire absence of any pale markings on 

 forewings, except in cilia. 



This small and inconspicuous species frequents the flowers of 

 Bursaria spinosa, (a shrub belonging to the Pittosporece,} sitting 

 on them in the hot sunshine ; it is not uncommon ne^: Parramatta 

 and occurs also at Bowenfels on the Blue Mountajs, 2,500 feet 

 above the sea. 



10. CARPOCAPSA, Tr. 



Thorax smooth. Antennse in male thick ene'd,* not ciliated. 

 Palpi moderate, ascending, appressed to f ace, second joint shortly 

 rough-scaled beneath, terminal joint distinct. Posterior tibiae 

 loosely scaled. Forewings moderately broad, costa in male 

 simple, slightly arched, hindmargin rather oblique, slightly 

 sinuate. Hindwings rounded, broader than forewings, in male 

 with a short membranous ridge on lower median near base, and 

 a grooved channel below it. Forewings with veins 7 and 8 

 separate, 7 running to hindmargin. Hindwings with veins 3 

 and 4 stalked, 5 nearly parallel to 4, 6 and 7 separate. 



Allied to Stigmonota, but separated from it and other allied 

 genera by the ridge and groove of the hindwings in male. From 



