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thorax narrow ; legs short ; nhdnmeu excessively slender. 

 Si/perior a^rpeiulnt/es of male subtriangular, inferior shorter. 



Type: .1 Uoneiira soli tar in Tillyard. 



It is necessary to propose this new genus for the reception 

 of the two Australian species, Alloneura solitaria Tillyard, 

 and .4. ealestina. Tillyard, inasmuch as a careful comparison 

 w itli de Selys' definition of AUonenra (viz., that portion of 

 liis "grand-genre" Alloneura, which he designated as "Sons- 

 genre" Alloneura) shows us that the two groups are evi- 

 dently not congeneric. The two species mentioned are most 

 closely related to Nososticta, and might be included in that 

 genus, were it not for important differences in build and 

 venation. These are : the very small head and narrow tho- 

 rax, short legs and excessively attenviated abdomen, whicli 

 alone distinguish these two species sufficiently from Noso- 

 sticta; and, in venation, the slenderer build of the wing, with 

 slightly more petiolation, and a much smaller number of 

 transverse veins between nodus and pterostigma. In Plate 

 xlvii., fig. 3, I have figured the hindwing of a specimen of 

 A. solita7-ia from Cooktown, possessing o?ili/ two transverse 

 veins between nodus and postnodal sector. I have several 

 other specimens like this, illustrating the greatest amovint of 

 reduction known to me in this wing-area for the legion Pro- 

 toneura: but the greater number of specimens have three 

 transverse veins in the space mentioned. 



15. NoTONEURA. SOLITARIA Tillyard. 



Alloneura solifaris Tillyard, these Proceedings, 1906, p. 

 182 {solitari!^ being a lapsus calami for solitaria). 



cf. Appendages: superior 0-5 mm., black, conical, 

 (Lejiressed ; tips very sharply pointed : inferior 0-2 mm., very 

 blunt, with an inferior upcurved hook at base, black. (Plate 

 xlvi., figs. 5, 6.). 



Hah. — Cairns, Kuranda, and Cooktown, N.Q. 



T y p e s : d* 9 , Coll. Tillyard, Kuranda : December, 1904. 



