70 Transactions. 



Sterrhid^. 



* Leptomeris rubraria, Dbkl. 



17 specimens. Australia, New Zealand. 



Nymphalid^. 

 *Anosia bolina, L. 



1 g' specimen. India, Malay Islands, Australia, Pacific islands, New- 

 Zealand. 



* Vanessa itea, F. 



3 specimens. Australia, Norfolk Island, New Zealand. 



^ Satyrid^. 



* Melanitis leda, L. 



1 specimen. Africa, southern Asia, Australia, Pacific islands. 



Phycitid^. 

 Homoeosoma anaspila, Meyr. 

 8 specimens. New Zealand. 



_ . ^. Pyraustid^. 



Eranistis, n. g. 



Face rather oblique ; ocelli present ; tongue developed. Antennae |. 

 Labial palpi moderate, ascending, second joint dilated with rough, projecting 

 scales, tufted towards apex beneath, terminal joint very short, loosely 

 scaled. Maxillary palpi moderate, porrected, loosely scaled. Forewings 

 with 3 almost from angle, 4 and 5 stalked, 7 out of 8 near base, 9 and 10 

 out of 8 beyond 7, 11 almost connate with 8. Hind wings 1 ; frenulum in 

 ? simple ; 4 and 5 stalked, 7 out of 6 near origin, anastomosing with 8 to 

 middle. 



This curious genus differs from all others in the PyraustidcB by the origm 

 of vein 7 of the forewings from 8 ; it does, notwithstanding, belong here, and 

 not to the Pyralididce, and is an instance of the independent and exceptional 

 acquisition of a character which is normally characteristic of another family. 

 It is undoubtedly allied to the group of Nymphula and Perisyntroeha ; the 

 simple frenulum of ? is an interesting and unusual character, but found 

 in some species of that group. 



Eranistis pandora, n. sp. 



5 . 22 mm. Head and thorax light brownish-ochreous. Labial palpi 

 light brownish-ochreous sprinkled with dark fuscous, white towards base 

 beneath, tip white. Maxillary palpi pale ochreous banded with blackish. 

 Abdomen ochreous- whitish. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa mode- 

 rately arched towards apex, apex obtuse, termen obliquely bowed ; brownish- 

 ochreous, thinly sprinkled with dark fuscous ; costa suffused with dark- 

 fuscous irroration towards base ; lines represented by very undefined thick 

 shades of dark-fuscous irroration, first about |^, shghtly curved, second 

 about |, nearly parallel to termen, space beyond this more irrorated with 

 dark fuscous. Hindwings ochreous-white. Undersurface of forewings and 

 hindwings sufiusedly whitish, with a bent dark-grey post-median line be- 

 coming obsolete dorsally. 



1 specimen ; another taken. The example described is in indifferent 

 condition, but is so distinct as to be easy of recognition. 



