674 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO -LEPIDOPTERA, 



extremities, with a strong black apical dash. Hindwings light 

 grey, darker along hindmargin, more whitish-grey and thinly 

 scaled towards base ; cilia whitish, with a faint grey line. 



The male of this species is unknown to me, but in neuration 

 and superficial characters it agrees with this genus, in which it 

 is easily recognisable by the grey costal and white dorsal halves 

 of the forewings. It has a superficial resemblance to Streps, 

 seditiosana, from which it may be known by the wholly white 

 head and palpi, the tuft of the palpi, and the absence of a dark 

 longitudinal streak on forewings from base. 



I took one specimen amongst scrub near Brisbane, in September. 



5. Hoi. biscissana, n. sp. 



$ ? . 3"-4". Head and thorax whitish mixed with grey. 

 Palpi whitish, tuft of second joint grey towards extremity. 

 Antennae grey. Abdomen dark grey. Legs whitish, anterior 

 and middle tibiae and tarsi ringed with dark fuscous. Forewings 

 narrow, costa slightly arched, apex somewhat produced, hind- 

 margin sinuate ; whitish, coarsely irrorated with grey scales, 

 tending to form iregular hardly oblique strigulae ; costa 

 obliquely strigulated with blackish; a small irregular dark 

 fuscous grey spot in disc below middle at one-third from base, 

 and a similar one below middle at two-thirds from base ; from 

 posterior half of costa run two or three very oblique dark grey 

 lines to hindmargin above middle, the first of which tends to 

 enclose with the second discal spot a round whitish patch on anal 

 angle ; a blackish apical dot ; cilia whitish, becoming grey 

 posteriorly, crossed by a blackish spot at apex. Hindwings 

 grey ; cilia grey, at base whitish. 



A distinct species, characterised by its small size, the coarse 

 and not oblique strigulation of forewings, and the two well- 

 marked dark discal spots at one-third and two-thirds from base. 



Five specimens, taken amongst low scrub near Sydney and on 

 the Bulli Pass, New South Wales, in October and January. 



