164 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN TORTRICINA, 



Originally founded on a single species; I subsequently widened 

 the generic characters so as to include some other forms which 1 

 now believe to have no immediate affinity here, and have there- 

 fore removed them to a new genus in the neighbourhood of 

 Tortrix. There is now only one Australian species, which is 

 undoubtedly closely allied to the following genus, Paraselena, and 

 must be supposed to have arisen from it by the reduction and 

 disappearance of the stalk of veins 7 and 8 of forewings; and two 

 New Zealand species, curious forms which are not much like the 

 type or one another, but appear to agree in all essential structure. 



31. P. annosana Meyr. 



(Proselena annosana Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1881, 

 421.) 



N.S VV.: Parramatta — Tasm.: Launceston — S. AusT.: Wiria- 

 bara; from September to November. 



10. Paraselena, n.g. 



Antennae in (J moderately ciliated. Palpi moderate, porrected, 

 second joint dilated with rough scales above and beneath, 

 terminal short. Thorax smooth. Forewings with 7 and 8 

 stalked, 7 to terraen. Hindwings with 3 from much before 

 angle, remote and nearly equidistant from 2 and 4, 4 from angle, 



5 rather approximated to 4 at base, transverse vein very oblique,. 



6 and 7 long-stalked. 



Type P. thamnas Me3'r. The species are similar in general 

 characters to the preceding, from which they differ onl}' by the 

 stalking of veins 7 and 8 of forewings. The genus is endemic, 

 and must be regarded as a modification of Isochorista. 



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32. P. tenella, n.sp. 



5. 8 mm. Head and palpi whitish. Thorax whitish, partially 

 tinged with pale yellow-ochreous. Abdomen pale whitisli- 

 ochreous. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex 

 round-pointed, termen rounded, rather strongly oblique; white, 

 thinly sprinkled with fuscous; an undefined basal patch and 



