1670 DESCRIPTION'S OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 
greyish-ochreous, posterior extremity whitish. Abdomen pale 
greyish, anal tuft whitish-ochreous. Legs dark fuscous, posterior 
pair whitish-grey-ochreous. Fore wings elongate, costa slightly 
arched, apex subacute, hindmargin hardly rounded, extremely 
oblique ; rather light greyish-ochreous ; a moderate straight 
whitish streak above middle from base to hindmargin below apex; 
costal space above this fuscous, paler towards apex, darker towards 
base : cilia light ochreous-greyish, somewhat whitish beneath apex. 
Hindwings grey ; cilia pale ochreous-greyish. 
Mount Wellington (3000 feet), Tasmania; Port Lincoln, South 
Australia ; in November and December, two .specimens. 
Gymnobathra, Meyr. 
736. (425a.) Gymn. om 2 )halota, Meyr. 
f Gymnobathra ompimlota., Meyr., Trans. N. Z. Inst. 1887, 81.) 
Christchurch to Lake Wakatipu, New Zealand. 
737. (428a.) Gymn. hahropis, Meyr. 
(Gymnobathra habropis, Meyr., Trans. N. Z. Inst. 1887, 80.) 
Nelson, New Zealand. 
64*. Gcestia, n.g. 
Head smooth, sidetufts loose ; tongue developed. Antennse in 
^ moderately ciliated (1), basal joint moderately elongate, with 
pecten. Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint with appressed 
scales, somewhat loose beneath, terminal joint nearly as long as 
second, slender, acute. Thorax smooth. Posterior tibiaa clothed 
with long hairs above. Forewings with vein 1 furcate, 2 and 3 
rising on a curved stalk out of 4 near origin, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to 
costa. Hindwings elongate-ovate, cilia § ; veins 3 and 4 from a 
point, 6 and 7 parallel. 
Differs from Oecoj)hora only by the singular and exceptional 
structure of veins 2-4 of forewings. The genus is constituted for 
