50 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIV. 1917. 



(1) Schistotheca canescens. 



t Schistotheca canescens Rag., Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (0). ii. p. clxn-. (1882) ; id., Rom. Mem. viii. p. 429. 

 pi. 45. f. 15. 

 Chili. 



(2) Schistotheca gigantella. 



Crambtts gigantella Druce, A. M. N. H. (8). viii. p. 720 (1911). 

 Peru. 



Gen. Lamoria. 



Type. 



iomorw Wlk.. xxTii. 87 (18G3) adaptella 



Maraclea Wlk., xxvii. 88 (1863) inostentalis 



Tugela Rag., Nouv. Gen. p. 51 (1888) clathrella 



Proboscis minute ; palpi of male sliort, upturned, tliickly scaled, of female 

 porrect, extending about twice the length of head and fringed with hair below ; 

 maxillary palpi minute ; frons with large tuft of hair ; antennae of male almost 

 simple, the basal joint rather dilated. Forewing narrow, the costa arched, 

 the apex rounded ; vein 3 from close to angle of cell : 4. 5 staUced, from a point, 

 or separate ; the discocellulars curved ; 6 from just below upper angle, from 

 angle, or shortly stalked with 7, 8, 9, 7 from before 9 ; 10,11 from cell ; the 

 male with glandular sweUing at base of costa on underside. Hindwing with 

 vein 2 from near angle of cell ; 3, 4, 5 stalked ; the discocellulars angled inwards 

 to near base ; 6, 7 stalked. 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Sect. I. Forewing with veins 4, 5 separate. 



A. Hindwing of male on upperside clothed with golden brown androconia 

 except on terminal area and on underside along the median nervure and veins 

 4 to 2. 



(1) Lamoria pachylepidella. 



Lamoria ■par.liylepidella Hmp.sn., Bom. Mhn. viii. p. 441. pi. 53. f. 3 (1901). 

 Queensland. 



B. (Blaraclea). Hindwing of male normal. 



(i) Lamoria oenachroa. 



Lamoria oenachroa Turner, Pr. R. Soc. Queensl. xix. p. 55 (1905). 

 Queensland ; W. Australia. 



(3) Lamoria inostentalis. 



t Maraclea inostentali.'i Wlk.. xxvii. 88 (1803); Hmpan.. Rom. Mhn. viii. p. 436. pi. 53. f. 2. 



Japan ; Formosa ; C. and W. China ; Borneo ; D'Entrecasteaux Is., Fergus- 

 son I. The hindwing often has vein 4 absent. 



(4) t Lamoria medianalis n. sp. 

 cJ. Head and thorax pale purphsh grey mixed with blackish ; abdomen 

 ochreous white, tinged with rufous at base ; legs grey tinged with brown ; ventral 

 surface of abdomen whitish irrorated with brown. Forewing pale purplish grey 

 irrorated with blackish, with a dark shade along median nei-vure and whiter sliades 

 in the cell and submedian interspace ; a small obscure discoidal spot tinged 



