692 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



17. HEXDECASTICHA n. g. 



Thorax smooth. Antennae in male ciliated, with an excavated 

 notch near base. Palpi moderate, porrected, second joint 

 densely rough-haired above and below, terminal joint nearly 

 concealed. Posterior tibke fringed with hairs above. Porewings 

 elongate, narrow, costa in male with a basal fold, nearly straight, 

 hindmargin sinuate. Hindwings elongate-trapezoidal, broader 

 than forewings. Porewings with 11 veins, vein 7 running to 

 costa, secondary cell indicated, upper basal fork of vein 1 nearly 

 obsolete. Hindwings with veins 3 and 4 coincident, 5 approximated 

 to 4 at base, 6 and 7 stalked. 



Nearly allied to Strepsiceros, but distinguished from it and the 

 other genera of the group by the possession of only 1 1 veins in 

 the forewings, the normal veins 7 and 8 being probably coinci- 

 dent ; in the neuration of the hindwings it resembles JBatJirotoma. 



The only species is from New Zealand. 



1. Hend. oethaliana n. sp. 



$ ? . 3f"-4f ". Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen dark 

 fuscous, sprinkled with ashy-whitish. Antennae dark fuscous, 

 in male notched a little above basal joint. Legs whitish-grey, all 

 tibiao and tarsi suffusedly banded with dark fuscous-grey. Pore- 

 wings narrow, costa hardly arched, hindmargin slightly sinuate, 

 very oblique ; dark fuscous, coarsely irrorated with grey and 

 ashy- whitish scales, especially on basal half and before apex, 

 tending to form irregular transverse lines ; sometimes there is 

 an irregular ochreous suffusion towards inner margin before 

 middle, and above anal angle : cilia dark fuscous sprinkled at 

 base with ashy- whitish. Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia dark 

 fuscous, with a blackish line at base. 



1 took this species rather commonly in January amongst rank 

 grass and herbage on some swampy ground near Hamilton on 

 the Waikato, New Zealand ; its small size and dark colouring 

 make it very inconspicuous on the wing. 



