('211 ) 



short, conical; ^ : segmeuls compi'es.ied, rectangular in side-view; ? : alinosh 

 cylindrical, basal seriated ciliae rndinientary. Abdomen with spinules only at the 

 edges of the tergites. Tibiae not spinose ; spurs short, two pairs to liindtibia ; 

 pnlvillus and parouychimn present, tlie latter with two long thin lobes at each 

 side : tar.si heavily scaled. Distal margins of wings entire, apex of fore wing 

 frnncate ; SC- and R' of hiudvving on a rather long stalk, D- very oblicpie, more 

 or less cnrved, longer than D^. 



Early stages not known to ns. 



//f'fj. Easterir jiarts of Ansti'aJia,. 



One species. 



173. Metamimas australasiae. 



S/,/,;,,.,' niislmliisNN.- Donovan, /..■. t, :',:'.. f. 1 (_ ^ ) (LSiiO). 



Ar/ieroiitia anntralaxitie, Boisdiival. I'o//. Axtrolabc, Lei), p. 181. n. 2 (1832) (Austral.). 



Cni'ijiiosa aimlralasifie, Walker, /.'■. viii. p. l'.'iT. n. 2 (l8o6) (N.S.W.); Mi=ik., Pmr. Roji. Snr. Qnei'iiild- 



viii. p. 2-2. n. 3G (1801) (Newcastle : Brisbane). 

 lliiirlii/glossa a/tslralaxifie, Boisdiival, S/)C-. Gen. Lep. Hel. i. p. 10. ii. 2 (1875) {^ : larva oa Baukiia)- 

 *Diw-hjicilomi bauh-<uie id., /-■. p. 11. n. 3. t. 3. f. 1 (1875). 

 Mrtiiiiuinas aimtmhtniae, Butler, I.e. ix. p. 582. n. 1 (1877) : Kirby, Tran^. Enl. So ■. Lnml. p. 237 



(1877) ; id.. Oil. Lep. Uet. i. p. 701 n. 1 (1892). 

 Melitmimcis baiilsiae, Butler, /.<■. j). ('i28 (1877). 



cJ?. Basal area of forewing of cj more or less pale grey, while the wing of 

 the ? is uniform in ground-colour. 



J. Tenth tergite (PI. XXIII. f. 23 j longitudinally impressed above, strongly 

 chitinised, narrowed to a curved hook, distal portion carinate beneath, transsectiou 

 ]irismatical, tip pointed; sternite a rather low, strongly chitinised ridge, which is 

 somewhat bent upwards, faintly eniargiuate, minutely notched or granulose at the 

 edge, with the sides rounded. Olasper large, rounded at apex, ivitho'tt patch of 

 friction-scales, scales at and near dorsal edge very long ; harpe with two processes, 

 biifh ventral, pointing obliquely upwards, one proximal of the other, subbasal, the 

 upper edge of the more distal one continued dorso-basad as a low ridge (PL XXXI. 

 f. ,.'■'_). Penis-sheath irifhout armature. 



?. Eighth tergite transverse, rounded-truncate, angles strongly rounded. 

 \'agiMal plate (PI. XVI. f. 2) large, strongly chitinised, distal margin rounded, 

 eilge membranaceous ; orifice ])ostmedian (r), situated at the end of a prominent 

 mesial carina ; sides deeply concave. 



Hal). Australia, eastern part. 



in the Tring jMuseum s cJcJ, 18 ? ? from N. S. Wales and South Queensland. 



LIV. OOEQUOSA.— Typus : friancjularis. 



Spluiu; Donovan (,„.„ Linn.-, 1758), //(.<. .Y. rioll. t. 33 (1805). 



Achciwitia, Boisdiival (iion Laspeyres, 1809), Vuy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 181 (1832). 



Bmcht/glossn id. (von id., 1829), Spec. &Vh. Lip. t. 12 n (1830). 



Coe(piom Walker, Lint Lep. Ins. B. M. viii. p. 257 (185G) (partim ; type : Iriatiguhina), 



Caeqima (!), Butler, Trans. Znol. Soc. Lmicl. ix. p. 597 (1877). 



(? ? . Dii^Vrs from Mfifa?nima.'< in the hindtibia having only one pair of spurs, 

 in the retinaculum being absent and the frenulum vestigial, in the more rounded, 

 not distinctly truncate, apex of tlie forewing. and in the less obliipic iip])er cross- 

 vein of the hindwina". 



