BY E. MEYRICK. 



409 



grey-whitish. Forewings shining whitish-grey, sometimes faintly 

 bronzy-tinged : cilia ochreous-whitish. Hindwings grey ; cilia 

 whitish-grey, sometimes ochreous- tinged. 



Albany, West Australia; in September, October, and Decem- 

 ber, ten specimens. 



30. HOPLOPHANES, n.g. 



Antennfe 4, in ^ shortly ciliated. Labial palpi moderate or 

 short, straight, rather drooping, filiform, pointed. Posterior tibiae 

 clothed with long hairs. Forewings : lb simple, 5 absent, 7 to 

 costa, S absent. Hindwings §-4, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 cilia 1^-3; transverse vein absent between 3 and 4, 5 and 6 some- 

 times stalked; in ^ a ridge of long appressed hairscales beneath 

 costa towards base. 



Type //. tritocosma. An interesting genus, wholly endemic, 

 and chiefly characteristic of West Australia, where it will doubt- 

 less prove to be of considerable extent. Imago with forewings 

 lanceolate or broad-lanceolate; most of the species appear to fly 

 naturally in sunshine. The larval habits are entirely unknown; 

 but the long-pointed abdomen of the 9, furnished with a long 

 exserted ovipositor, is so similar to that of other species which 

 deposit their eggs in flowers (especially in the heads of Gompositce)^ 

 that I should be disposed to conjecture a similar mode of life. 



1. Forewings ochreous-yellowish 2. 



Forewings bronzy 4. 



2. Forewings witli terminal cilia fuscous 209. haplochrysa. 



Forewings with terminal cilia yellowish 3. 



3. Forewings with dark fuscous costal streak.. 211. hemiphragma. 



Forewings with costal edge only dark fuscous 210. rhlorochry.^a, 



4. Forewings with white or yellowish markings 5. 



Forewings without such markings 9. 



5. Forewings with white markings before middle 6. 



Forewings without white markings before middle 7. 



6. Forewings with white terminal fascia 212. hetei'Oipila. 



Forewings without white terminal fascia 213. tritocosma. 



7. Forewings with fascia near beyond middle 8. 



Forewings with fascia near apex only 216. monosema. 



8. Forewings purijle-sufFused, fascia yellowish 215. semicuprea. 



Forewings not purplish, fascia whitish 214. acrozona. 



