658 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



terminal joint distinct. Posterior tibiee fringed with hairs above. 

 Forewings somewhat oblong, posteriorly dilated, costa in male 

 with a short narrow basal fold, shortly arched at base, slightly 

 sinuate in middle, hindmargin oblique. Hind wings as broad as 

 fore wings, hindmargin indented below middle ; a large membran- 

 ous scaled ridge on submedian vein towards base, and a thickened 

 place above it on subcostal (? in male only). Forewings with 

 veins 7 and 8 stalked, 7 running to hindmargin. Hindwings 

 with veins 3 and 4 stalked, 5 approximated to 4 at base, 6 and 

 7 stalked. 



A peculiar and abnormal genus, not evidently related to any 

 other ; I have placed it here, because the ridge of the hindwings 

 (though much larger and more conspicuous) is analogous to what 

 is found in Carpocapsa, but it disagrees in the stalking of veins 

 7 and 8 of forewings, and of veins 6 and 7 of hindwings, and in 

 the presence of a small and inconspicuous costal fold ; the form 

 of the wings is also unusual, and the location of the genus must 

 therefore remain uncertain at present. 



1. Epit. alaudana, n. sp. 



$ . 8". Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and abdomen dark 

 fuscous. Legs pale greyish-ochreous, anterior and middle tibise 

 and all tarsi dark fuscous with pale greyish-ochreous rings. 

 Forewings moderate, dilated posteriorly, costa abruptly bent at 

 base, sinuate in middle, hindmargin obliquely rounded ; dark 

 fuscous, irregularly mixed with black ; a small somewhat oblong, 

 rather oblique, ochreous-whitish spot on middle of inner margin ; 

 an ochreous-whitish band along hindmargin, irrorated with 

 fuscous, and on hindmarginal edge becoming fuscous, moderately 

 broad on costa and gradually attenuated to anal angle, its 

 anterior edge sharply defined and emitting a short tooth in 

 middle : cilia dark fuscous mixed with ochreous-whitish, especially 

 towards anal angle. Hindwings whitish-ochreous above the 

 ridge, suffused with fuscous-grey below the ridge and towards 



