BY E. MEYRICK. 483 



44. Antennaa 1 or over 1 46. Stegommata. 



Antennae less than 1 45. 



45. Forewings with 4 veins absent 41. Cateristis. 



Fore wings with 5 veins absent 47. Crohylophora. 



46. Antennae 1. 43. Bedellia. 



Antennae less than 1 47. 



47. Forewings with cell closed, 5 veins absent 42. Diplothectis. 

 Forewings with cell open, 6 veins absent... 44. Arctocoma. 



1. Nemotois, Hb. 



Head rough-haired on crown, face smooth ; eyes in ^ enlarged, 

 approximated on crown ; ocelli absent ; tongue well-developed, 

 base hairy. Antennae in ^ about 3, in ^ 1^ or more, in ^ 

 filiform, simple, basal joint thick, without pecten. Labial palpi 

 moderate, curved, ascending, shorter in (^, with long rough pro- 

 jecting hairs in front, terminal joint tolerably pointed. Maxillary 

 palpi absent. Posterior tibiae clothed with long hairs. Fore- 

 wings with vein 1 furcate, 7 to costa, 11 from J. Hiudwings 1, 

 elongate-ovate, cilia § ; veins 6 and 7 stalked or approximated at 

 base. 



A rather small genus, characteristic of the European and Indo- 

 Malayan regions ; the three Australian species known to me are 

 very closely allied togethei\ The known larvae (not Australian) 

 are case-bearers, feeding at first on flowers, afterwards rather 

 indiscriminately. The imagos fly in hot sunshine, 



1. Forewing.s with clear yellow oval spot in 



disc near base 3. topazias. 



Forewings without yellow spot 2. 



2. Hairs of crown in (T black 1. sparsellus. 



Hairs of crown in ^ yellow-ochreous mixed 



with blackish 2. orichalcias. 



1. JVem. sparselhts, Walk. 

 (Nemotois sparsella, Walk. 506.) 



^9. 11mm. Head in ^ blackish, in ^ yellow-ochreous, face 

 brassy-metallic. Palpi whitish, with black hairs. Antennae 



