662 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



B. Fore wings whitish-ochreous or ochreous- 

 brown ; apex shortly produced. 



1 . Head and thorax ochreous-brown. 



a. Hindwings dark fuscous . . . .8. crepusculana. 



b. Hindwings golden brownish-ochreous. 



i. Cilia of f orewings brownish-ochreous 5 . hibbertiana,. 

 ii. Cilia of forewings grey, with two 



white subapical spots .. . .6. himerodana. 



2. Head and thorax pale ochreous mixed 



with fuscous .. .. .. ..7. fidana. 



3. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous, face 



white .. ..9. segetana. 



1. Pal. anguillana, n. sp. 



$ . of". Head ochreous-fuscous above, whitish on sides, 

 strongly tufted between antennae. Palpi ochreous-white, tuft 

 dark fuscous towards extremity. Antennae dark fuscous. Thorax 

 ochreous-grey, paler on shoulders. Abdomen grey. Legs 

 whitish, anterior tibiae and all tarsi banded with dark fuscous. 

 Forewings moderately narrow, costa moderately arched, apex 

 strongly produced, hindmargin rounded beneath ; whitish, with 

 a few grey scales, and with a faint greyish suffusion towards anal 

 angle ; anterior half of costa strigulated with blackish ; a dark 

 grey irregularly semi-oval patch on anterior half of inner margin, 

 extending from base to a little beyond middle, and at its broadest 

 part reaching a little more than half across wing ; a rather larger 

 dark ferruginous irregularly oblong patch on posterior half of 

 costa, extending on costa from a little before middle to apex, and 

 reaching nearly two-thirds across wing, its lower edge parallel 

 to inner margin and rather ill-defined, its anterior edge outwardly 

 oblique and somewhat parallel to posterior edge of the grey patch .- 

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



Nearly allied to P. infectana, but distinguished readily from it 

 by the whitish colour extending along anterior half of costa, the 



