BY E. MEYRICK, B.A. 701 



1. Cose, improbana n. sp. 



$ ? . 6"-7". Head silvery-white. Palpi white, basal two- 

 thirds of second joint sharply dark fuscous beneath. Antenna) 

 in male fuscous, basal joint white ; in female whitish. Thorax 

 white, somewhat mixed with fuscous. Abdomen whitish. Legs 

 whitish, anterior and middle tibiae and tarsi broadly banded 

 with dark fuscous. Forewings very narrow, costa somewhat 

 bent close to base and a little before apex, almost sinuate in 

 middle, hindmargin nearly straight, very oblique; white, in 

 male with an irregular ochreous-grey suffusion towards margins ; 

 about seven irregularly placed black linear spots on costa; in 

 male a raised longitudinal bladder-like membranous ridge, 

 extending in disc from near base to two-fifths, its costal half 

 clothed with white scales, dorsal half naked, pellucid, and 

 shining ; in female this is absent, but there is a small irregular 

 blackish spot in disc at two-fifths ; a grey cloudy spot on inner 

 margin at two-fifths, extending half across wing, in male con- 

 taining a transverse blackish mark, in female obscurely mixed 

 with blackish ; a rather broad grey transverse central suffusion, 

 containing in male a short longitudinal black linear [mark near 

 middle, in female a small roundish black spot and some scattered 

 black scales ; a row of indistinct linear blackish spots along 

 hindmargin : cilia whitish, suffused with grey, obscurely barred 

 with darker. Hindwings thinly scaled, whitish, apex greyish- 

 tinged ; cilia whitish, faintly greyish-tinged round apex. 



Of this curious species, which for some time I did not 

 recognise as belonging to the Tortricina, I have three specimens 

 (two males and one female), beaten from bushes of Kunzea capitata 

 near Sydney, in December. 



For convenience of reference, a list is here subjoined of the 

 species described by Walker in the British Museum Catalogues 

 under the head of Tortricina ; the number given refers to the page 

 of the Catalogue, and after each species is given its proper generic 



