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AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 
gently rounded, purple fuscous, more or less tinted with violet 
or redish ochreous ; the -whole wing is indistinctly marbled by 
transverse ochreous fuscous lines and spots ; six or seven sharp- 
angled black dots along costa from J to before apex ; an oblique 
line of dots transversely at a broad auricular figure of suffused 
black and dark fuscous ^ to |j costa and curving round to a line of 
interrupted dots to ^ costa, enclosed space light ochreous or purple 
fuscous, a curved sinuous double ochreous black line from costa 
immediately beyond to f inner margin, an indistinct submarginal 
fuscous line, a hindmarginal line of black dots. Cilia as ground 
colour. Hindwings ochreous fuscous or light violet fuscous, 
irrorated with darker scales, hindmarginal line of black. Cilia 
as forewings. 
Rockhampton and Brisbane. 
Group TINEINA. 
Family XYLORICTID^. 
Lichenaula oxygona, nov.sp. 
2 . 26 mm. Head creamy-white. Palpi creamy-white, 
terminal joint smoky-grey. Antennm golden-cream. Thorax i 
creamy-white, shading into grey posteriorly. Abdomen creamy 
fuscous. Forewings elongate, costa gently rounded, hindmargin 
nearly straight, rich creamy-white finely irrorated with smoky- 
grey scales ; costal line ochreous, beyond costal band of ground- 
colour from base nan'owing at ^ costa, and extending in a 
narrow line to ^ inner margin ; a fuscous line J costa obliquely 
shading into grey to median to within one-sixth of hindmargin, 
Rience angled in a recurved outward line to before anal angle of 
inner margin ; this line is bordered posteriorly by a line of ground- 
colour which runs along veins shaded with grey to hindmargin, 
these form alternate lines with grey suffused bands ; three choco- 
late fuscous spots beyond on costa, the third giving off two lines, I 
the first bordered posteriorly wdth white runs nearly parallel with i 
hindmargin to just before anal angle of inner margin ; the second, 
which is parallel, stops short at ^ hindmargin. Cilia gi'ej. 
Hindwings cream-colour, shaded, excepting all borders, with 
smoky-grey ; short marginal fuscous band round apex to i hind- 
margin. Cilia white, grey toward apex. ! 
One specimen bred from the caterpillar taken in scrub near ' 
Brisbane by Mr. Illidge, 1893. 
