764 CATALOGUE OF 



Abdomen extending beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft rather long, 

 Wings elongate, rather narrow. Fore wings hardly acute, speckled 

 and partly blotched with brown ; a blackish band very near the 

 base, not extending to the interior border ; a blackish triangular 

 patch on the middle of the costa ; three small blackish marks in 

 the disk behind the patch, and an irregular blackish exterior band; 

 margiual points blackish; exterior border slightly convex, very 

 oblique. Length of the body 3^ lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. Australia. From Mr. Darnel's collection. 



145. Cryptolechia amissella. 



Fcem. Cana ; abdomen cinereum, oviduct u exserto ; tibia? posticus 

 lale fimbriates ; ala? antica? sat angustce, aneo-fmco conspersce, 

 guttis quatuor discalibus elongatis strigaque exteriore trans- 

 versa niyricantibus, striga obliqua plagisque duabus ceneo- 

 fuscis ; posticcB ceneo-einerea. 



Female. Hoary, shining. Antennae slender. Abdomeo cine- 

 reous, extending rather beyond the hind wings ; oviduct exserted, 

 long. Hind tibiae broadly fringed. Wings rather narrow ; fringe 

 long. Fore wings minutely and irregularly speckled with aeneous- 

 brown ; four elongated blackish dots in the disk ; third and fourth 

 dots behind the first and the second ; third a little beyond the first, 

 and fourth a little beyond the second ; a short transverse blackish 

 discal streak near the outer side of the fourth dot; an aeneous-brown 

 streak extending obliquely outward from the second dot to the ex- 

 terior border, and two aeneous-brown patches, one on the interior 

 border, connected with the streak, the other apical ; exterior border 

 extremely oblique. Hind wings aeneous-cinereous. Length of the 

 body 5 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Tasmania. Presented by M. Allport, Esq. 



146. Cryptolechia indecorella. 



Mas. Cinerea ; antenna? subpubescentes ; ala? anticce latiuscula, 

 apice subrotnndata, atomis punctis fasciisque tribus latis 

 abbreviatis fuscis, fasciis la 2aque interruptis, 3a apicali 

 maculam cineream marginalem includente. 



Male. Cinereous. Hind tibiae slightly fringed. Antennae 

 indistinctly pubescent. Wings rather broad. Fore win«s slightly- 

 rounded at the tips, with a few brown speckles and elongated points, 



