LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 763 



very oblique ; a large brown patch occupying nearly the whole of 

 the interior border, convex in front; some brown speckles towards 

 the exterior border. Hind wings brownish cinereous ; fringe pale. 

 Length of the body 3J lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



a. Moreton Bay. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



143. Cryptolechta trans vers el la. 



Mas. Albida ; caput hirsutum ; palporum articulus 2us extus 

 niger ; antenna, setulosae ; abdomen cinereum ; tibia posticce 

 fimbriate ; alee anticce sat angusta, apice subrotundatce, nigri- 

 cante con spersa?, fascia, basali, plaga costali trigona, lineasub- 

 marginali punctulari punctisque marginalibus nigricantibus, 

 punctis quatuor discalibus niyris ; posticce ceneo-cinerea. 



Male. Whitish. Head above thickly clothed with short erect 

 hairs. Palpi smooth, slender, twice longer than the breadth of the 

 head ; second joint black on the outer side, except at the tip ; third 

 setiform, shorter than the second. Antenna? setulose. Abdomen 

 cinereous, extending rather beyond the hind wings. Hind tibiae 

 fringed. Wings rather narrow. Fore wings slightly rounded at 

 the tips, minutely and irregularly blackish-speckled; a blackish 

 band near the base ; a blackish elongated triangular patch on the 

 costa at a little before the middle; four black points in the disk; 

 one contiguous to the patch, between the second and the third, which 

 are more hindward ; fourth and fifth behind the second and the 

 third; suhmarginal line composed of elougated blackish points, 

 slightly curved outward, angular near the costa ; marginal points 

 blackish ; exterior border hardly convex, very oblique. Hind wings 

 aeneous-cinereous; fringe long. Length of the body 3-J- lines; of 

 the wings 10 lines. 



a, b. Sydney. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



144. Cryptolechia fcedatella. 



Mas. Cana ; palpi graciles ; antennce pubescentps ; alee anticce 

 elonyata, sat angusta, vix acuta, fusco conspersa et plagiatce, 

 fascia basalt, plaga costali trigona, lituris tribus posticis y 

 fascia exteriore punctisque marginalibus nigricantibus. 



Male. Hoary, closely allied to C. tr an sver sella. Palpi smooth, 

 slender, twice louger thau the breadth of the head ; third joint seti- 

 form, much shorter than the second. Antennas minutely pubescent. 



