1616 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 
shoulders dark fuscous. Antennse grey, base yellowish. Abdo- 
men light yellowish. Legs dark fuscous, posterior pair ochreous- 
yellowish. Fore wings elongate, costa gently arched, apex round- 
pointed, hind margin very obliquely rounded ; deep ochreous-y el- 
low 3 markings dark fuscous, purplish-tinged 3 a streak along 
costa from base to §, posteriorly attenuated 3 a dot in disc at |-, and 
a second on fold rather obliquely before it, both sometimes wholly 
absent 3 sometimes a cloudy streak from first dot to co.sta at 1 3 
two dots transversely placed in disc at j 3 a fine cloudy line from 
costa near apex to anal angle, dilated on costa, sinuate inwards 
on upper half and bent outwards on lower half, sometimes entirely 
absent : cilia ochreous-yellow, sometimes with a grey spot above 
apex. Hindwings grey 3 cilia pale ochreous-yellowish. 
Albany, West Australia 3 in September and October, common. 
A variable but distinct species. 
651. (215a.) Phil, metachroa, n.sp. 
21-24 mm. Head and thorax deep or pale ochreous-yellow. 
Palpi pale yellowish, second joint dark grey except apex. An- 
tenme whitish-yellowish, annulated with grey. Abdomen grey. 
Legs dark grey, posterior tibiae light grey or whitish. Forewings 
elongate, costa slightly arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin 
nearly straight, rather strongly oblique 3 dull-ochreous-yellow, 
variable in depth, sometimes more or less densely suffused through- 
out with pale greyish ; cilia light ochreous-yellow, on hindmargin 
with apical 5 sometimes light grey. Hindwings grey 3 cilia grey 
or whitish-grey, sometimes yellowish-tinged round apex. 
Mount Kosciusko (5000 feet), Kew South Wales 3 in January, 
common. The form of variation is curious 3 but the species is 
always to be recognised from the closely allied P. tyroxantha and 
P. melirrhoa by the grey abdomen. 
652. (216a.) Phil, holocrossa, n.sp. 
16-21. mm. Head orange. Palpi grey, above yellowish. 
Antenme grey. Thorax orange, sometimes greyish-tinged. Ab- 
domen dark grey, lateral margins and anal tuft yellow. Legs 
