BY A. JEFFERIS TURNEU. 551 



nearly straight to near apex, apex rounded, termen bowed, 

 moderately oblique ; whitish-ochreous, thickly strigulated with 

 with dark fuscous, and suffused with orange-ochreous along 

 veins ; markings dark fuscous ; a moderate fascia from ^ costa 

 to before mid-dorsum ; a second fascia from before midcosta 

 to beyond mid-dorsum, obscure and interrupted in disc ; a 

 large triangular costal blotch from j to apex containing two 

 short fine pale lines from costa; a blotch on dorsum before 

 tornus, continuous with second fascia, and bisected by a 

 narrow curved pale line from dorsum ; cilia pale ochreous 

 barred with fuscous. Hindwings with termen rounded ; fus- 

 cous finely strigulated with orange-ochreous ; cilia pale ochre- 

 ous obscurely barred with fuscous. 

 One specimen. 



Fam. PYALID^. 

 Subfam. Pyralin^. 

 Gen. Aboetheta, nov. 

 af3oy]0r]TOS, helpless. 

 Frons oblique, flat. Tongue well-developed. Labial palpi 

 long (several times breadth of eye), porrect, thickened with 

 dense appressed hairs above and beneath : terminal joint con- 

 cealed. Maxillary palpi strongly dilated. Antennae of d* 

 thickened, subdentate, shortly ciliated. Posterior tibiae with 

 outer spurs about f of inner. Forewings with 4 and 5 stalked, 

 7, 8, 9 stalked. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked, 7 anasto- 

 mosing for half its length with 8. 



Apparently nearest Mijrmidonistis Meyr. 



Aboetheta pteridonoma, n.sp. 



TTTepiSovofios, dwelling among ferns. 

 0*9- 14-20 mm. Head white. Palpi dark fuscous: inter- 

 nal surface and apex of maxillary palpi white ; labial palpi 

 2|. Antennae whitish, ciliations in cf I. Thorax whitish, 

 slightly ochreous-tinged. Abdomen whitish-ochreous with 

 transverse fuscous bars, tuft fuscous, underside white. Legs 



