BY E. MEYRICK. 667 



slightly dilated. Fore wings in g without fovea; 10 connected 

 with 12 and 9, 11 out of 10 between connections. Hindwings 

 normal. 



Contains the following species only. 



105. Smyr. aplectaria, Gn. 



(Smyriodes aplectaria, Gn. IX, 223, pi. xx, 1 ; Nisista notodon- 

 taria, Walk. 294 ; Vunga delineata, ib. Suppl. 453.) 



$. 33-40 mm. Antennal pectinations 6. Forewings elongate- 

 triangular, hindmargin bowed, dentate ; light fuscous, partially 

 ochreous -tinged, indistinctly strigulated with darker; a fine 

 blackish transverse line near base, angulated beneath costa ; a 

 round blackish suffusion on lower half between this and first line; 

 first line slender, blackish, somewhat irregular, curved ; median 

 shade cloudy, blackish, ill-marked, rectangularly angulated out- 

 wards above middle and sinuate inwards below middle ; second line 

 slender, blackish, running from costa beyond middle to § of inner 

 margin, angulated outwards beneath costa and above middle, 

 sinuate inwards between angulations and on lower half ; sub- 

 terminal irregular, cloudy, pale, more whitish at extremities, 

 anteriorly more or less distinctly margined with dark fuscous 

 suffusion, marked with two or three short black streaks between 

 veins above middle ; a short oblique blackish-fuscous streak from 

 apex; a fine black hindmarginal line. Hindwings with hind- 

 margin rounded, subdentate ; fuscous-grey, becoming whitish-grey 

 towards base ; an indistinct slender irregular darker line beyond 

 middle ; subterminal faintly paler. 



Mount Lofty, South Australia ; also from Tasmania ; in May, 

 three specimens. Larva 10-legged ; apple-green; dorsal light 

 crimson ; spiracular pale yellow ; spiracles orange-yellow, black- 

 centred : feeds on a prickly species of Pultenaea. It has been 

 bred by Mr. E. Guest, to whom I am indebted for this information. 



34. Gastrina, Gn. 



Face with slightly projecting scales. Tongue developed. Palpi 

 moderate, subascending, rough-scaled, terminal joint short. An- 



