BY E. METRICK, B.A. 181 



or long, straight, porrected, second joint broadly scaled, laterally 

 ccmpressed, terminal joint slender, scaled, porrected. Posterior 

 tibise fringed with, hairs above. Forewings elongate, very narrow, 

 costa in male simple, nearly straight, apex obtuse or almost acute, 

 hindmargin very oblique ; surface with tufts of raised scales. 

 Hindwings elongate, apex attenuated, as broad or somewhat 

 broader than forewings, cilia very long, as broad or broader than 

 hindwings. Forewings with veins 7 and 8 separate, 7 running to 

 hindmargin, secondary cell absent, 1 furcate at base. Hindwings 

 with 6 veins, 3 and 4 separate, more or less remote at origin, 3 

 from upper angle of cell to slightly above apex, 6 free. 



Immediately separate from the other genera possessing only 

 6 veins in the hindwings, by the remoteness of veins 3 and 4 at 

 origin ; in all others they rise from a stalk. The peculiar 

 ascending palpi of the male are also a very singular characteristic, 

 reminding one of some of the Tineidce, such as Scardia, but the 

 palpi of the female approximate to the ordinary tj'-pe of the group. 



All the species are blackish, with the forewings much roughened 

 and their habit is to sit on the blackened and charred fibrous bark 

 of some species of Eucaly2}tus, where they are practically invisible 

 until induced to move. I possessed those here described before 

 the publication of my last papers, but so curious is their super- 

 ficial appearance that I had never suspected their affinity until 

 lately. They are in fact closely allied to the genera previously 

 described, though it may be doubted whether any one, who had 

 not closely studied the neuration, would be induced to believe, 

 without seeing the connecting links, that Bond, attenuatana 

 really belonged to the Tortricina. 



I may mention here that Carposina, HS., represented by two 

 European species, is without doubt referrable to this group, 

 though erroneously placed hitherto in the Gelechidcd, to which it 

 has no affinity ; the six-veined hindwings, long straight porrected 

 palpi, and tufts of scales on forewings, are sufficient proofs. 

 Superficially it nearly resembles Heterocrossa. 



