686 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



and there is an obscure leaden-metallic line near hindmargin ; 

 cilia white, outer half grey irrorated with blackish. Hindwings 

 very thinly scaled, grey ; cilia grey. 



This small species is of peculiar appearance, and very distinct 

 from any other, being characterised by its small size, very narrow 

 forewings, dark colouring, and the pure white transverse streak 

 posteriorly. 



Three specimens taken at rest on a fence near Sydney, in 

 October. In repose the apex of the forewings is obliquely bent 

 in round the abdomen, as though deformed ; a habit which is not 

 perceptible in any other species of the genus, but is similar to 

 that noticed in the case of HelictopJianes uberana. 



6. Streps, fluidana, n. sp. 



4"-5". g . Head and thorax white, more or less sprinkled 

 with ochreous and grey. Palpi white, second joint tufted, tuft 

 dark grey towards extremity. Antenna grey, in male thickened 

 and notched at about one-fourth from basal joint. Abdomen 

 ochreous-whitish, indistinctly suffused with grey towards base of 

 segments. Legs white, anterior and middle tibiae and all tarsi 

 ringed with dark fuscous. Forewings narrow, costa slightly 

 arched, apex produced, hindmargin sinuate, obliquely rounded 

 beneath ; grey, densely irrorated with white, and more or less 

 suffused posteriorly with reddish-ochreous ; along the costa the 

 grey alternates with the white to form coarse oblique strigula? ; 

 a more or less distinct narrow central longitudinal white streak 

 from base, almost reaching anal angle, but posteriorly dilated and 

 suffused, sometimes crossed by ill-defined strigulas ; sometimes 

 a dark grey spot on submedian fold before middle ; a row of 

 four or five sharply-defined linear black dots near lower half of 

 hindmargin, preceded and followed by a silvery-metallic line, the 

 second metallic line extending to costa before apex ; apex and 

 hindmargin beyond this line reddish-ochreous : cilia white on 



