682 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



grey. Legs whitish-grey, anterior and middle tibiee and tarsi 

 suffusedly banded with dark fuscous-grey. Forewings moderate, 

 slightly dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, hindmargin 

 nearly straight, oblique ; light ashy-grey, with a few scattered 

 black scales, in male more or less wholly suffused irregularly 

 with dark grey, especially towards costa and hindmargin ; costa 

 And inner margin coarsely strigulated with blackish ; a strong 

 tuft of raised scales in male towards inner margin at one-third 

 from base ; a cloudy irregular somewhat sinuate broad dark 

 fuscous longitudinal streak in disc, mixed with ochreous and 

 blackish, extending from near base to beyond middle, thence 

 bent downwards to inner margin before anal angle ; in male this 

 streak is more or less obscured through the general dark suffusion; 

 an ill-defined triangular dark fuscous blotch on upper half of 

 hindmargin, its apex extending inwards to disc at three-fourths, 

 sometimes ochreous-tinged, in male often cloudy and suffused, 

 especially beneath, generally containing two or three longitudinal 

 black streaks : cilia grey, mixed with whitish points, irregularly 

 and indistinctly barred with blackish. Hindwings dark grey ; 

 cilia grey, with a dark grey line near base ; veins 3 and 4 long- 

 stalked. 



The markings of this species are very obscure and confused, 

 especially in the male, but it cannot well be mistaken for any other; 

 it is comparatively the broadest- winged species of the genus, and 

 the raised tuft of scales on forewings in male is a peculiar 

 character ; its dark cloudy colouring, and the absence of any 

 white markings distinguish it from all but the much narrower- 

 winged and differently marked S. macropetana, and the more 

 clearly marked S. limnepJiilana. 



Larva cylindrical, active, dull green, more yellowish on sides 

 and towards extremities, dorsal spots paler ; head and second 

 segment, or posterior half of second segment, black. Feeds 

 amongst spun- together shoots of Kunzea capitata and Darwinia 



