1604 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 
disc at f ; a faint darker curved line from ? of costa to anal angle, 
indented beneath costa, but hardly traceable ; cilia grey-whitish, 
basal half obscurely barred with grey on upper half of hindmargin. 
Hindwings pale whitish-grey ; cilia ochreous-grey-whitish, with a 
faint darker line. 
Mount Victoria f3,300 feet), Xew South Wales ; two speci- 
mens, in November. Near V. orescoa, but wholly without dark 
costal patch. 
629. (169a.) Xej)h. axiota, n.sp. 
(J. 20-23 mm. Head, antennae, and thorax dark grey, apex of 
patagia grey-whitish. Palpi dark grey, posterior edge whitish. 
Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish-ochreous. Legs dark grey, 
|X)sterior pair pale whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, costa 
gently arched, faintly sinuate in middle, apex round-pointed, 
hindmargin nearly straight, oblique ; fuscou.s-grey, with a few 
grey- whitish scales in disc and posteriorly; a dark fuscous-grey 
suffused spot on base of costa, reaching half across wing ; an 
elongate narrow semi-oval dark fuscous-grey patch extending along 
costa fiom near beyond this to |, surrounded beneath posterior 
half by a moderately broad white suffusion ; an in*egular blackish- 
fuscous mark on lower margin of this patch in disc, representing 
two discal dots ; a blackish-fuscous dot on fold at §, and another 
near beyond and above it ; a crescentic blackish-fuscous mark in 
disc at I ; an indistinct dark fuscous line from | of costa to inner 
margin l>efore anal angle, angulated in middle, lower half curved 
near hindmargin ; cilia grey, somewhat mixed with grey-whitish. 
Hindwings grey, fuscous-tinged ; cilia whitish-fuscous. 
Warragul, Victoria; two specimens taken by the Piev. G, H. 
Raynor in December. Closely allied to X. protorthra, with which 
it is almost identical in markings of the fore wings, but immediately 
distinguished by the grey hindwings. 
630. (171a.) Xeph. pyrola., n.sp. 
(J 9 . 14-17 mm. Head, i^alpi, and thorax dark ochreous-fuscous, 
base of palpi whitish. Antennae dark fuscous. Abdomen dark 
