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Family GEOMETRWAE. 



SiHFAMiLY OENOCHROJIINAE. 

 Adeixis gen. nov. 



Foreivin(/8 : with costa straight; apex blunt, nearly rectangular; hindmargin 

 oblique, straight above, strongly rounded below, the anal angle truncate. 



Hindivinijs : with margin and both angles well rounded. 



Forehead with rough porrect scales; palpi porrect, subrostriform, roughly scaled; 

 antennae of c? bipectinate ; the pectinations stiflf and bent forwards at their ape.x, all 

 strongly ciliated ; those on the inner side of the shaft only half as long as those on the 

 outer; hind tibiae thickened and roughly scaled, with four stout spurs; hind tarsi 

 short, one-third of tibiae ; forewings witli rough hair at base of costa beneath, covering 

 the retinaculum. 



Nenrcdimi : forewings, cell more than half as long as wing, both margins bent 

 inwards towards extremity ; first median nervule at two-thirds, second before end, 

 third from end of cell ; lower radial from somewhat above centre of discocellnlar ; 

 upper from upper end of cell ; veins 7 and 8, and 9 and 10 stalked, 8 anastomosing 

 with 9 and 10 to form a single areole ; 11 free. Hindwings with costal closely 

 approximated to subcostal for three-fourths of cell, then rather strongly curved away ; 

 cell three-fifths of wing ; first subcostal and second median from before the end of 

 cell ; radial ft-om above the middle of discocellular. 

 Typje : Adeixis insignaia sp. nov. 



The genus seems to agree in the main with what Mr. ^leyrick (in the 

 Proceedings of the Linnean Society of X. S. Wales for 1889, p. 119G) calls Aspilates 

 Tr. ; but as I cannot see how a genus formed for European species can be restricted (?) 

 so as to include Australian Oeaochrominae, I have referred the insect under notice to 

 a new genus. 



43. Adeixis insignata sp. no\-. 



Forewings : mouse-colour, dusted with darker atoms ; no distinct markings ; a 

 slightly darker cell-spot ; an oblique outer line from middle of inner margin towards 

 apex, sometimes marked by darker denticulations on the veins, and traces of a pale 

 curved submarginal line ; fringe concolorous, beyond a very fine dark marginal line. 



Hindwings : paler, ochreous grey, becoming darker only along hindmargin. 



Underside the same. Head and thorax mouse-grey ; abdomen somewhat paler -^ 

 palpi tinged with ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 21 mm. 



Two ? ?, four cjc?, from Parkside, Australia. 



A very obscure-looking insect. 



44. Onycodes rubra sp. uo\ . 



Forewings: reddish fawn-colour, sprinkled with black scales; the lines very 

 obscure, reddish, at one-third, one-half, and two-thirds, oblique from the costa, then 

 vertical and waved ; a paler diffuse grey shade from apex towards inner margin, the 

 marginal area beyond reddish ; fringe reddish. 



Hindivings : dull red, sprinkled witli black; with two dark lines; the inner 

 margin greyer. 



