2()4 ^rr. Butler's Nates an Caraina arxi THchetra. 



$ Bolivia : ? Venezuela. Brit. ]\his. 



The radiatin,u- hairs on the tegnhv are well-(levelo]i('(l in this 



specicB. 



4. Caraiitu jilniiuisa^ ii. sp. 



Nearly allied to the preceding, but (excepting in its smaller 

 size, and the black upper surface of the anterior pair of legs) 

 ngreeing with C. WaR-eii. Expanse of winas $ 1 inch. 2 hues: 

 $ 1 incli, 5 lines. 



$ , 9 f^antarem. Brit. INIus. 



5. Carama ? nivea (Cramer, Paj). Exot.). 

 Surinam. 



This a]^]ioars to lielong to the genus. 



TinrirKTRA, Wcstuuiotl * 



1. Tri(:liet}-n f:fia/-s/ialh' (CMrtii^. Brit. Ent. vii. pi. 3;^>()), 

 Australia ? 



2. TricJiet/u frate/na, n. sp. 



Differs from T. sparshalli only in having the anterior legs 

 white, not black above. Exj^anse of wings $ 1 inch, 9 lines ; 

 9 2 inches, 2 lines. 



jNIoreton Bay. Brit. Mus. 



The female has all the wings white, the thorax l)lack, the 

 toguht' testaceous internally : a largo sandy-brown anal woolly 

 mass. 



3. Triclietia stihosoma, n. sp. 



9 Differs from T. ini'soiiielas, in having the abdomen snow- 

 white as in the preceding sjiecies, and with the anus tufted with 

 brown above. Expanse of wings 2 inches 2 lines. 



N. 8. AVales. Brit. Mus. 



4. Tn'chctra iiicsdiiidaii (AYalker, Lep. Met. 4, p. <S4r»). 



$ , 9 Tasmania. Brit. Mus. 



The two genera ai'e easily distinguished, Caraina having a 

 i-adiating brush of Avhite hair on each tegula in the males, and 

 Trifhetra a crest of projecting hair on tlie front of the head ; 

 there are, moreover, other less evident characters. 



* Agassiz g-ives this as White's genus, hut he nowhere diagnoses it, 

 and tlie species figured in GreyV Australia are not congeneric. 



