312 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LKPIDOPTEKA, vi., 



apex, apex acute, ternieii straight, slightly oblique: whitish with 

 sparse fuscous irroration; markings dark fuscous: a spot on \ 

 costa with indications of a fine basal line: a second spot on costa 

 beyond middle: a third spot midway between this and apex, 

 giving rise to a tine interrupted postmedian line, at fiist outwards 

 oblique, then sharply angled and very oblique to dorsum before 

 middle: this is followed by a faint diffused grey shade: a fuscous 

 terminal line ; cilia fuscous. Hind wings quadrate, sharply 

 angled on vein 4; colour as forewings; a faint fuscous transverse 

 line at }^: a dark fuscous, straight, dentate, median, transverse 

 line. Underside pale ochreous: forewings with a broad, fuscous, 

 postmedian, oblique line: hindwings irrorated only on margins, 

 a short, dentate, fuscous line from J costa, and another from 

 dorsum before tornus. 



N.Q.: Cape York (Elgner): one specimen in Coll. Lyell. Also 

 from Java, Borneo, Ceylon, and India. 



Gen. 5. M E D A s I N A. 



. Medasina Moore, Lep. Ceyl., iii., p. 408: Hmps., Moths Ind., 

 iii., p.283. 



Tongue well-developed. Palpi moderate, upturned, closely 

 appressed to frons, thickened in front with closely appressed 

 hairs. Antennte in ^ bipectinate, apex simple. Thorax and 

 abdomen not crested; thorax densely hairy beneath. Femora 

 glabrous; posterior tibise of (J strongly dilated. Forewings in 

 ^ with fovea; 10 and 11 long-stalked, 11 connected with 12. 

 Hindwings not elongate: neu ration normal. Type, J/, strixaria 

 Gn. 



Distinguished from Boannia by the upturned palpi ; from 

 Amblychia, by the long-stalking of 10 and 11, and the much 

 shorter hindwings. 



6. Medasina strixaria. 



Hem-irophlla strixaria Gn., Lep., ix , p.2l7. Medasina strix- 

 aria Hmps., Moths Ind., iii , p. 286. 



(J. 80 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen brown, Palpi brown, 

 suffused externally with dark fuscous. Antennae brown; pectin- 



