666 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



obscure lines to anal angle, third and fourth pair whitish, third 

 connected with hindmargin below apex by a short leaden-metallic 

 line ; a whitish or ochreous-white streak beneath costa from base 

 nearly to middle, sharply denned beneath but suffused into 

 ground-colour towards costa ; in male a moderately large roundish 

 ochreous-whitish patch on anal angle, mixed with fuscous, in 

 female not indicated ; apex ferruginous-tinged : cilia brownish- 

 ochreous, mixed with whitish, especially towards anal angle, 

 with a dark fuscous spot at apex. Hindwings golden brownish- 

 ochreous, towards hindmargin dark fuscous, in female more 

 f tiscous-tinged throughout ; cilia brownish-ochreous, mixed with 

 whitish towards extremities, with an obscure dark grey line near 

 base. 



Nearly allied to P. himerodana, but smaller and darker, 

 especially in male ; the first two pairs of costal pale strigulee not 

 white but leaden-metallic, the whitish streak from base rather 

 shorter and more suffused, the cilia brownish-ochreous, and a 

 large pale patch on anal angle in male. 



Larva slender, cylindrical, pale yellowish ; head broad, pale 

 brown : mining first a straight gallery, then a large crumpled 

 blotch in leaves of Hillertia volubilis ( DilleniaceceJ , the lower 

 surface of the mine contracting and the upper becoming shrivelled 

 and brown ; feeding in November and December. Pupa pale 

 brown, lying free within the mine. The images from these 

 larvse emerged late in December. 



Common at Sydney, flying in the sunshine near its foodplant, 

 and occurs also in the forest on the Bulli Pass, New -South Wales, 

 from September to December, and in March ; I also bred it 

 plentifully from the larvae as above. 



6. Pal. himerodana, n. sp. 



<$ $ . 5"-6". Head and thorax ochreous-brown, in female 

 rather darker. Palpi white, second joint with a dark grey spot, 



