224 Proceedings of fJie Royal Society of Victoria. 



Also from New Guinea, Fiji, Java, Sumatra, Ceylon, India, 

 and Afiica. 



Genus 2. Gymnoscelis. 



Gymnoscelis, Mabille. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (4), vii., p. 656 

 (1867). 



Face with short cone of scales. Palpi moderate, porrected, 

 rough-scaled. Antennae in 3" ciliated. Thorax glabrous beneath. 

 Abdomen crested. Posterior tibiae in both sexes without median 

 spurs. Fore wings with areole simple, 11 sometimes anasto- 

 mosing with or running into 12. Hind wings with 8 anasto- 

 mosing with cell from near base to beyond middle (Meyrick, 

 Tr.E.S., 1892, p. 65). 



Type. — G. pumilata, Hb., from Europe. 



A small genus principally developed in the Indo-Malayan 

 region. One species occurs in Europe, and Sir George Hampson 

 records seven from India. The species are inconspicuous, and 

 require careful discrimination. 



1. Fore and hind wings with a whitish spot on 



middle of termen . . . - . 



Foi'e and hind wings without whitish terminal 



spot -------- 



2. Fore wings greenish ------ 



Fore wings not greenish ----- 



3. Hind wings with termen more or less projecting 



between veins 3 and 4 - 

 Hind wings with termen rounded - - - 



4. Terminal projection slight, fore wings with a 



looped antemedian line - . - . 



Terminal projection strongly marked, fore wings 

 without a looped antemedian line 



5. Thorax with a dark fuscous, transverse, posterior 



coquina 



erymna 

 3 



4 

 5 



acidna 



bar ----- 

 Thorax without a dark transverse bar 



delocyma 

 lophopus 



3. Gymnoscelis lophopus, n. sp. 



[Ao<;i)os a crest, and ttous a foot ; with crested feet]. 



(? ?, 15-16 mm. Head whitish; lower margin of face mixed 

 with fuscous. Palpi whitish, mixed with fuscous. Antennae 



