300 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, vi., 



199. Angelia melancroca, n.sp. 

 fieAayKpoKOS, woven with black. 



£. 26 mm. Head ochreous-whitish; face and palpi fuscous. 

 Antennae grey, towards hase whitish, pectinations in $ 6. Thorax 

 and abdomen ochreous- whitish. Legs pale fuscous; posterior 

 pair, except tarsi, whitish, with fuscous irroration. Forewings 

 triangular, costa strongly arched at base, thence straight, apex 

 round-pointed, termen nearly straight, slightly oblique; ochreous- 

 whitish, markings blackish ; a short streak from costa at i, 

 strongly outwardly oblique; a transversely oval discal spot; a 

 subdentate line, parallel to termen at |, strongly marked on 

 costa, thence pale and slender; cilia ochreous-whitish. Hind- 

 wings with termen rounded; fuscous, towards base ochreous- 

 whitish ; a dark fuscous postmedian line at 4, cilia whitish. 

 Underside pale grey, with fuscous discal spot and postmedian 

 line on each wing. Type in West Australian Museum. 



W.A.: Perth, in May, one specimen received from Mr. W. B. 

 Alexander. 



Gen. 69. A mklo r a . 



Amelora, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Hoc. N. 8. Wales, 1891, p.646. 



Head rounded, usually somewhat projecting, sometimes strongly, 

 smooth or rough-scaled, sometimes with a short projecting tuft. 

 Tongue well-developed. Palpi moderately long, porrect, rough- 

 scaled; terminal joint short or moderate. Antenna in £ bipec- 

 tinate to apex. Thorax often with a slight, rounded, anterior 

 crest; beneath more or less hairy. Femora smooth or somewhat 

 hairy; posterior tibia? of £ often dilated with internal groove and 

 tuft. Forewings of £ sometimes with fovea, usually without, 10 

 and 11 long-stalked, their stalk connected or anastomosing with 

 12, 10 connected or anastomosing with 9. Hind wings normal. 



Variable in several details of structure, but surprisingly con- 

 stant in neuration, this is becoming a large genus. What is of 

 more interest is that it is the centre of a small group of distinct- 

 ively Australian genera, two of which, Authaemon and Angelia, 

 agree with it absolutely in neuration, while Paramelora is I mt 

 slightly different. All the species of this group are southern, 



