BY E. MEYRICK. 181 



posteriorly dilated, costa slightly arched, with fold reaching to 

 beyond middle, and an expansible hair-pencil from base resting 

 on this outside (besides the usual hairs inside), apex obtuse> 

 termen hardly sinuate, vertical, rounded beneath; pale fuscous; 

 costal half of fold and tuft fuscous, lower half whitish-ochreous; 

 markings dark fuscous mixed with light ochreoiis-yellowish and 

 obscurely margined with whitish-ochreous; an irregular spot in 

 disc indicating angle of basal patch; central fascia represented by 

 a transverse spot extending from middle of disc to near dorsum, 

 its upper extremity enlarged; a narrow somewhat sinuate fascia 

 running from | of costa to tornus, its upper extremity furcate 

 and enclosing a fuscous spot; a small dark fuscous spot on costa 

 towards apex, space between this and fascia fuscous ; some 

 strigulse along upper half of termen : cilia whitish-ovhreous. 

 Hindwings along costa from base to near apex with fringe of 

 long pale brownish hair-scales directed downwards over surface; 

 bronzy-fuscous with a faint reddish tinge; cilia whitish-ochreous 

 faintly tinged with reddish. 



N.G.: Sariba I.(Meek); one specimen. 



16. AcROCEUTHES Meyr. 



Acroceuthes Meyr., Proc Linn. 8oc. N. S. Wales, 



1881, 458 ... ... ... ... type metuxanthana. 



Antennte in $ ciliated. Palpi moderate, porrected, second 

 joint witii projecting scales above and beneath, in $ above with 

 large expansible fringe of long hair-scales, terminal short, con- 

 cealed. Thorax without crest. Forewings with 7 and 8 stalked, 

 7 to termen. Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate, 5 approximated 

 to 4 at base, 6 and 7 stalked. 



A specialised form of Capria, sufficiently characteristic for 

 distinction. 



67. A. metaxauthana Walk. 



{Cacoecla metaxanthana Walk., Cat. xxviii., 315; Sciaphila 

 projecta?ia, ib. 352; Carpocapsa trajectana, ib. xxx., 992; Acro- 

 ceuthes metaxanthana Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. Wales, 1881, 

 45»). 



