( 4ol ) 



Autophylla gen. nov. 



Forewings with the costa unusually gihbous from base to shortly before apex, 

 then shallowly concave ; apex produced as a rather long blunt beak; Ijelow whicli the 

 hindmargin is first very strikingly concave, and then as strongly convex, forming a 

 broad lilunt elbow as far as the third median nervule, where it is once more concave 

 and obliquely sinuous to the anal angle, which is well marked. Hindwings with 

 hindmargin simply rounded, and interior angle well marked. Abdomen (of ? ) short, 

 and stoutish, witli projecting ovipositor; forehead flat; antennae fine, filiform ; paljii 

 very short; tongue weak. Xeuration : forewings, with cell extending bevond the 

 half of the wing ; first median at three-fourths, second just before angle, third from 

 lower angle of cell ; lower radial from centre of the discocellular, which is inangulated ; 

 upper radial from upper angle of cell ; last three subcostals on a common stem, the 

 fifth running parallel to upper radial into the blunt elbow, the fourth into the 

 concavity below the apex, and the third into the apex itself; the first and second are 

 invisible, and perhaps, owing to the peculiar shape of the eosta, absent. Hindwings 

 with the costal approximated for a little way to the subcostal, then arching away ; 

 the two subcostal nervules separating before the end of cell ; medians as in the fore- 

 wing; discocellular also inangulated, as in forewing ; scaling dense and close. 



Type : Autophylla pallida sp. nov. 



The two ? ?, which I have had before me in describing the genus, are almost 

 certainly- from South America, as they bear a gi-eat superficial resemblance to the 

 species of the genus Phi/llodonta Warr., and other allied genera from that locality. 

 They were, however, labelled, "Either from Australia or South America." The 

 peculiar outline of the forewings will at once distinguish them ; it may be best com- 

 pared with the profile of a snail's head, with the horns somewhat retracted. They 

 also have a supei-ficial likeness to Hypoaidra Guen. 



Autophylla pallida sp. nov. 



? . Forewings ochreous suffused with pale olive, and thickly sprinkled with 

 blackish atoms ; first line diffuse, indistinct, rather a shade than a line, but marked 

 by a small dark dot on each vein ; second line dull olive, geminated, with a paler 

 thread between, running straight from the tip of the apex to beyond the middle of 

 the inner margin; at the apex it is edged externally with a white line, which ends 

 in a small white spot ; the inner-marginal third is less suffused with olive than the 

 rest of the wing ; but above the anal angle is an obscure olive shade. Hindwings 

 paler, with no suffusion ; a central .straight line, which is the continuation of the 

 second line of the forewings, and another curved, submarginal. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen ochreous mottled with darker. Underside paler, more yellowish ochreous, 

 spotted with fuscous olive; the lines darker; the second line in the hindwings 

 preceded by a row of spots, and with the discocellular marked in brown; forewings 

 more suffused with olive and grey. 



Expanse of wings : 62 mm. 



Two ¥ ¥ from ? South America. 



Lobopalta gen. nov. 

 Forewings narrow ; costa uniformly arched from base to apex, which is blunt, not 

 produced; hindmargin projecting slightly outward.s for only half the width of the 

 wing, then forming a broad blunt prominence, succeeded inwardly by a similarly 



