BY E. MEYRICK. 271 



a longitudinal dark grey streak on side, above with expanded 

 white hairs. Antennal ciliations ^. Thorax white sprinkled 

 with grey. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous. Foiewings sub- 

 oblong, costa anteriorly moderately, posteriorly sliyhtly arched, 

 with moderately broad fold reaching from base to middle, apex 

 Tounded-obtuse, termen rounded, rather oblique; wliite, soraew hat 

 sprinkled with pnle greyish, and strewn throughout with dark 

 grey strigulse partially mixed with black and ferru^jinous; the 

 black markings appear to indicate edge of basal patch, anterior 

 edge of central fascia, and triangular costal pHtch, but these are 

 hardly traceable except towaids costa; a lather laige dorsal 

 patch of grey suffusion before tornus : cilia white, on basal half 

 with indicationsof undefined dark grey bars. Hindwings thinly 

 scaled, whitish, towards apex suffused with light grey; cilia grey- 

 whitish. 



N. GuiNKA : Fakfak; one specimen. Allied to H. mherana, 

 but larger, with hindwings more whitish, and specially charac- 

 terised by the peculiar fruntal tuft. 



35. Cnephasia Curt. 



■{Jnephnsia Curt., Brit. Ent. iii., 100(1826) ... Xy\^e pascuana. 

 Sciaphila Ti'., Schraett. Eur. vii., 233(1829) . type wahlbomiana. 

 Dipterina Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc.N. S.Wales, 



1881,523... ... ... ... ... ty^e imbrifurana. 



Antennae in ^ moderately or strongly ciliated. Palpi moder- 

 ate or long, porrected, second joint witii projecting scales above 

 and beneath, terminal moderate. Thorax sometimes witli small 

 crest. Forewings with 3 from angle, 7 separate, to t' rmen. 

 Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate, 5 approximated to 4, 6 and 7 

 stalked. 



A genus of considerable extent and nearly cosmopolitan. 



252. C. periorma, n.sp. 



(J9. 13-16 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and ablomen 

 ■dark fuscous; palpi with a longitudinal orange-yellow band on 

 second joint, base whitish; antennae in ^ denttto on apical half, 



