BY E. MEVKICK. 371 



second, acutet Posterior tibise rough-haired. Forewings with 

 scale-tufts on surface; lb furcate or simple, 3 sometimes absent, 

 4 absent, 6 out of 7 or usually absent, 7 and 8 sometimes stalked, 

 7 to costa. Hind wings ^-'i, linear or linear-lanceolate, cilia 6-8; 

 3 absent, 1 usually absent, 5 and 6 sometimes obsolete, transverse 

 ^ein partly absent. 



Type M. characta. A characteristic Australian genus, of 

 which there are also two species in New Zealand. It is a develop- 

 ment of Syntomaclis, differing essentially in the reduced 

 neuration, but can also be recognised superficial!}^ by the different 

 arrangement of the scale-tufts, which are in effect the normal 

 stigmata. Imago with forewings elongate, narrow, long-pointed; 

 most, if not all, of the species are attached to Leptospermam and 

 allied Myrtaceous shrubs, though the larvaj are unknown; the 

 species require careful discrimination. 



1. Head wholly white or oohreous-whitish 2. 



Head daiker-sprinkled Oil crouu 4. 



2. Tenniiial joint of palpi wholly white l-tT. arize/a. 



Terminal joint of palpi -with two blackish rings .... 3. 



8 Plical stigma Ijefore first discal 142. fhyitiopi'^. 



Plical stigma beyond first discal 135. emholopis. 



4. Second joint of palpi Mith blackish lateral line 138. nodata. 



Second joint of palpi with two Idackish bands or 



rings 5. 



5. Grown sprinkled with ochreous or roddish-ochreous 6. 

 Crown sprinkled with grey, fnseons, or dark fuscons 7. 



6. Forewings reddish-ochreous, plical stigma beneath 



first discal 143. cpixutJia. 



Forewings whitisli-ochreous, plical stigma beyond 



first iliscal 137. cryp.iira-si-s. 



7. Forewings with clear white longitudinal .''iibcostal 



streak 8. 



Forewings without such streak 9. 



8. Plical stign\a beneath first discal 140. leptopis. 



Plical stigma before first discal 14."'. leucochtha. 



9. Forewings with broad whitish dorsal patch towards 



base 141. poiiophora. 



Forewings without such patch 10. 



10. Plical stigma before first discal... II. 



Plical stigma beyond first discal 12. 



