224 Mr. E. Meyrick on Pyralidina from 



stout. Labial palpi moderate, arched, ascending, second joint 

 with dense projecting scales beneath, terminal joint moderate, 

 with short projecting scales beneath, obtuse. Maxillary palpi 

 absent. Abdomen in male with anal segment elongate, tuft small, 

 valves retracted. Fore wings with vein 10 rising out of stalk of 8 

 and 9, 11 very oblique. Hind wings as broad as fore wings; veins 

 3, 4, 5 closely approximated at base, 7 out of 6 near origin, anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to near middle ; inner margin in male folded 

 beneath, with a pencil of long hairs. 



Mdiodes quaternalis, Ld. 



Mdiodes quaternalis, Ld., 483, pi. xvii., 1. 



Queensland; two specimens (coll. Lucas). Also from 

 Amboina and Java. 



Agroteka, Schrk. 



Forehead rounded, oblique. Ocelli present. Tongue well- 

 developed. Antennae three-fourths, in male moderately ciliated. 

 Labial palpi moderate, curved, ascending, second joint with dense 

 projecting scales beneath, flatly compressed, terminal joint with 

 acute triangular separate tuft of scales. Maxillary palpi short, 

 filiform, pointed. Fore wings with vein 10 closely approximated 

 to 9, 11 very oblique. Hind wings as broad as fore wings ; veins 

 3, 4, 5 approximated at base, 7 out of 6 near origin, anastomosing 

 with 8 to near middle. 



Agrotera effertalis, Walk. 



Mdiodes ejfertalis, Walk., -548. 



5 , 17 mm. Head orange, face and palpi dark fuscous. Antenna? 

 pale yellowish, spotted with dark fuscous, apex of basal joint 

 black. Thorax pale yellow, spotted with orange. Abdomen pale 

 yellow, segments irregularly orange towards base, sides posteriorly 

 and apex fuscous. Legs ochreous-whitish, anterior pair with 

 apical half of tibia 1 dark fuscous, apex of first and third and entire 

 two apical joints of tarsi black. Fore wings triangular, costa 

 hardly sinuate, slightly arched, apex tolerably rectangular, hind 

 margin obliquely rounded, somewhat sinuate beneath apex; rather 

 dark purple-fuscous; basal area up to first line pale yellow 

 irregularly spotted with orange, with a small blackish spot on 

 costa near base; first line black, irregular, from one-third of costa 

 to two-fifths .if inner margin, slightly curved; a small obscure 

 dark fuscous discal spot; costal edge posteriorly suffused with 



