OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 176 remaining part barred alternately with ash and rufous cross-bars; thighs, light tawny rufous with narrow bars of ashy; tarsi clothed to one-third of their length ; tail, light-ashy below, bluish-ashy grey above, with indistinct bars, obsolete in centre two feathers ; the margins of the inner webs towards the base washed with tawny ; bill, black ; cere, legs, and feet, greenish-yellow — (dry skin) ; iris, yellow. Total length 15*5 in. ; wing, 10 in. ; tail, 8*5 in.; tarsus, 2*6 in. Sex, female. The male is precisely similar in plumage, slightly smaller in measurements. I find in all our specimens that on the centre and outer-tail feathers, the bars have faded out, but on the third and fourth on either side, the bars are tolerably distinct. Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera. By E. Meyrick, Esq., B.A. I CRAMBITES. It is somewhat surprising that no progress should yet have been made towards the knowledge of Micro-Lepidoptera in a country which so abounds with the groups included under that term as Australia does. In general, the small size and delicate nature of the specimens preclude them from being commonly sent home to England by travelling collectors ; but they offer a wide field for the study of resident entomologists. According to the very imperfect data at present possessed, I estimate the total number of species occurring on the Australian continent to be fully 10,000, as they much exceed the larger Lepidoptera here in number and variety. It is to be hoped, therefore, that, when once a start has been made, entomologists will begin to take some interest in the subject ; and it may not be out of place to state that I shall always be ready to determine to the best of my ability any species that may be entrusted to my care, and that it would be of great interest to receive collections even of the commoner kinds from various parts of the country. A certain number of descriptions of Australian Micros were included by Walker in his British Museum Catalogues ; these names T have of course adopted when recognisable, but the
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