442 Mr. E. Meyrick on the classification 



base ; cilia pale yellow, opposite band with tips and a median line 

 dark grey. 



A conspicuous and striking insect. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; one specimen in August, 

 beaten from Banksia serrata. 



BOTYDID^. 

 Lepyrodes, Gn. 



Forehead flat, oblique ; ocelli present ; tons^ue well-developed. 

 Antennae as long as fore wings, filiform, in male shortly ciliated 

 (i). Labial palpi short, porrected, with dense projecting scales 

 above and beneath, anteriorly truncate, terminal joint short, fili- 

 form. Maxillary palpi short, fihform. Anterior tarsi in male with 

 broad dense tuft of hairs on basal joint beneath ; posterior tibiae 

 with outer spurs nearly equal inner. Abdomen elongate, in male 

 with short slender anal tuft, valves retracted. Fore wings with 

 vein 11 very long, oblique. Hind wings somewhat broader than 

 fore wings ; veins 4 and 5 tolerably approximated, 7 out of 6 near 

 origin, anastomosing with 8 to near middle. 



The characters of this genus given by Lederer 

 (copying Guenee.) are in part erroneous. 



LONCHODES, Gn. 



Forehead rounded, vertical ; ocelli present ; tongue well-deve- 

 loped. AntenniB five-sixths of fore wings, in male filiform, 

 minutely ciliated (^). Labial palpi rather short, curved, ascending, 

 '2nd joint with appressed scales, somewhat rough beneath, terminal 

 joint very short, cylindrical. Maxillary palpi absent. Posterior 

 tibiae with outer spurs half inner. Abdomen very long, anal 

 segment extremely elongate, valves retracted. Fore wings with 

 vein 10 rising out of the stalk of 8 and 9, 11 very oblique. Huad 

 wings as broad as fore wings ; veins 4 and 5 approximated at base 

 7 out of 6 near origin, anastomosing with 8 to near middle. 



This genus I beheve to be undoubtedly identical with 

 Gucnee's Lonchodes, founded on two South American 

 species ; I have certainl}^ one other species from the 

 South Pacific Islands. Lederer was unacquainted with 

 the genus ; the size of the eyes, which he quotes from 

 Guenee, affords no definite character. This genus and 

 the following llydnris are characterised by the maxillary 

 palpi being really absent ; they appear to form a 



