7 °*°* CATALOGUE OF 



Male. Hoary, slender, minutely black-speckled. Palni 

 smooth, slender, twice longer than the breadth of the head; third 

 joint setiform as long as the second. Antenna minutely setulose. 

 Abdomen pale cinereous, extending rather beyond the hind wines. 

 Legs slender ; hind tibias broadly fringed. Wings long, narrow. 

 Fore wings slightly rounded at the tips; seven short black streaks 

 of which four are near the base, and three beyond the middle and 

 approximate to each other ; a double submarginal line of elongated 

 black points ; exterior border straight, very oblique. Hind win ff s 

 cinereous, with a slight asneous tinge. Length of the body 5 lines; 

 of the wings 14 lines. J ' 



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



149. Cryptolechia gelidella. 

 Mas. Alba; vertex et thoracis margo anticus subcervina • palpi 

 articulo So apice fuscescente ; thorax cei vino bifasciatus- ab- 

 domen aurato-favum ; aim antic* lituris basalibus fascia 

 latissima fasciaque subapicali cinereis cervino variis, fascia 

 U lineam albam angulowm includente fusco extus marqinata • 

 postiece aurato-flavce. * 



Male. White. Vertex and fore border of the thorax tinged 



r JTC^T' i ^ . Sm00tb ' slem,er ' twice lon ^r than the 

 breadth of the head ; third joint setiform, brownish at the tip, a little 

 shorter than the second. Antennae smooth, slender. Thorax with 

 two fawn-coloured bands. Abdomen and hind wings pale gilded 

 yellow, the former extending somewhat bevond the latter. Le^s 

 slender ; hind tihise not fringed. Fore wings rather narrow, rounded 

 at the tips; markings cinereous, partly tinged with fawn-colour- 

 some dots and streaks near the base; a verv broad band, which is' 

 concave on the inner side, undulating and bordered with brown on 

 the outer side, intersected by a zigzag white line, and contains a few 

 black speckles; a small subapical band; costa and exterior border 

 slightly convex, the latter extremely oblique. Length of the body 

 4 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. : 



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



150. Cryptolechia acutella. 

 Fcem. Pallidissime cervina, subtus albida ; palpi squamosi, sat 

 validi, articulo Zo lanceolato ; pedes breviusculi, sat validi, 



