Australia and the South Pacific. 235 



Mnesictena celatalis, Walk. 



Botys celatalis, Walk., 657; B. suavalis, ib., Suppl., 

 1448. 



$ , 26 mm. Head and thorax yellow-ochreous, sides of face 

 narrowly white. Palpi oehreous-browu, beneath white towards 

 base. Antenna' whitish-ochreous. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. 

 Legs white, anterior femora pale ochreous above, anterior tibise 

 ochreons at base and with a broad ochreous or dark grey subapical 

 band. Fore wings rather elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly 

 moderately arched, apex obtuse, hind margin oblique, slightly 

 rounded; light ochreous-yellow ; costa suffused with brownish - 

 ochreous ; markings brownish-ochreous ; first line from before 

 one-fourth of costa to two-fifths of inner margin, somewhat bent 

 below middle ; a dot beneath costa at one-third, and a small 

 curved linear transverse discal spot in middle ; second line from 

 two-thirds of costa towards anal angle, slightly curved outwards, 

 below middle rectangularly bent inwards to beneath discal spot, 

 and again rectangularly bent to inner margin before two-thirds, 

 somewhat indented below costa and above inner margin ; a cloudy 

 subdentate subterminal line from three -fourths of costa to anal 

 angle, thickest above, indented inwards above lower extremity ; a 

 cloudy irregular hind-marginal line ; cilia ochreous-yellow, tips 

 paler. Hind wings with colour, second, subterminal, and hind- 

 marginal lines, and cilia as in fore wings ; a small indistinct 

 cloudy discal spot, touching angle of second line. 



Queensland; one specimen (coll. Lucas). Also from 

 Java and Ceylon. 



Mymostephes, Meyr. 

 Myriostcplies phoenicealis, Hb. 



Hcematia phcenicealis, Hb., Zut., 115,116; Rhodaria 

 phmnicealis, Gn., 173 ; R. flegialis, Walk., 316 ; 

 R. panopealis, ib., 318 ; Botys ccecilialis, ib., 581 ; 

 B. onythesalis, ib., 734 ; Rhodaria ocellusalis, ib., 

 923 ; R. noraxalis, ib., 926 ; Asopia Ian/alls, ib., 

 938; Rhodaria juncturalis, ib., Suppl., 1283; 

 R. concatenalis, ib., 1284 ; Myriostephes heliamma, 

 Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1885, 448. 



Also from India, China, West Africa, the West Indies, 

 and North and South America. I consider all the forms 

 quoted above identical; but there is more or less 



