BY E. MEYRICK. 143 



probably all feed in fruits, shoots, or bark. The main develop- 

 ment of the family is in the Australasian region and Pacific 

 islands. 



l.Vein 6 of hindwings developed 6. Sosineura. 



Vein 6 of hindwings reduced to a fold or absent 2. 



2. Second joint of palpi in J" with long curled hairs, 

 in $ cylindrical with rough scale-projection 



towards base above 5. Coscinoptycha. 



Second joint of palpi not so formed 3. 



3. Hindwings with basal pecten on cell 4. 



Hindwings without basal peeten on cell 5. 



4.Forewings with S and 9 stalked 2. Meridarchis. 



Forewings with 8 and 9 separate 3. Carposina. 



S.Palpi in <? subascending, terminal joint moderate; 3 



and 4 of hindwings usually separate 1. Bondia. 



Palpi in $ porrected, terminal joint short, 3 and 4 



of hindwings stalked 4. Paramorpha. 



1. Bondia Newm. 



Bondia Newm., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.(n.s.) iii., 289 



(1856) ... ... ... ... ... type B. nigella. 



Antennfe in ^ with long fine ciliations (4-5). Palpi in ^ 

 moderately long, moi'e or less ascending, in ^ very long, por- 

 rected, second joint densely rough-scaled above and beneath, 

 terminal moderate, slender, obtuse, exposed. Forewings : 8 

 separate. Hindwings without basal pecten on cell; 3 and 4 

 separate or nearly connate (in B. digramma stalked), 6 absent. 



All the species are narrow-winged insects of blackish colouring, 

 and frequent the trunks of Eucalyptus, heing specially assimilated 

 to their appearance when charred by bush fires; which would 

 seem to prove that such fires must be of very ancient occurrence 

 to allow time for the development of a genus of several species 

 wholly adapted to them. The genus is confined to Australia. 



1. B. caseata, n.sp. 



(^9- 17-20 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax blackish, sometimes 

 slightly whitish-sprinkled. Abdomen blackish, anal tuft in (flight 

 yellowish. Forewings elongate, narrow, hardly dilated, costaslightly 

 arched, apex round-pointed, termen slightly rounded, very oblique; 



