OF NEW SOUTH '^'ALES. 179 



CRAMBID^. 



Prionophora n.g. 



Forehead with overhanging projection of scales. Ocelli dis- 

 tinct, behind antennae. Tongue moderate. Antennae moderate, 

 in (^ ciliated. Labial palpi moderately long, rather shorter than 

 thorax, porrected, attenuated. Maxillary palpi absent. Fore- 

 wings oblong, apex projecting, acute, hindmargin strongly con- 

 cave beneath apex, dentate throughout. Hind wings with basal 

 pecten, apex not reaching anal angle of forewings, hindmargin 

 subdentate, with a deeper indentation a little below apex ; 

 clothed with long hair-scales towards base. Legs short. Abdo- 

 men moderate. Forewings with 12 veins ; 8 and 9 stalked, 

 rising out of 7, Hindwings with 8 veins ; cell open posteriorly. 



Readily distinguished amongst allied genera by the absence of 

 maxillary palpi, the peculiarly produced apex of forewings, and 

 the hair-scales towards base of hindwings. 



Prion, rwptella Wkr. Gat. 173 (JJramhus). 



11" — 14". Head light ochreous, posteriorly whitish, with a 

 few blackish scales, sometimes forming a central blackish line. 

 Palpi whitish-ochreous, sprinkled with blackish scales, beneath 

 white at base. Antennae pale ochreous. Thorax pale ochreous, 

 sprinkled with blackish scales, and with five longitudinal rather 

 irregular black lines, with a short crest in front aud another 

 behind. Abdomen and legs pale ochreous. Forewings moderately 

 broad, slightly dilated ; pale ochreous faintly tinged with pale 

 pinkish-brown ; a slender blackish subcostal streak suffused with 

 pinkish-brown, from base of costa to beyond middle, leaving a 

 pale costal streak ; a straight rather broader fuscous streak, 

 mixed with blackish, from base to costa immediately before apex, 

 strongly but irregularly margined beneath with black ; from pos- 

 terior half of its upper edge this sends three slender dark fuscous 

 lines to costa, separated by whitish spaces ; from J and f of its 

 lower margin it sends two slender dark fuscous streaks to hind- 

 margin ; except at junction of these, it is margined beneath with 

 an irregular, rather indistinct, silvery-white streak ; the median 

 vein and its branches marked out with strong dark fuscous lines ; 



