274 Mr. E. Meyrick's descriptions of 



dark fuscous dot in disc at two-fifths, and a cloudy dark fuscous 

 dot in disc at three-fifths, heneath which is an obscure fuscous 

 suffusion; some fuscous scales towards hind margin and apical 

 part of costa, tending to form obscure marginal dots ; cilia 

 ochreous. Hind wings with apex round-pointed, hind margin 

 moderately sinuate ; veins 3 and 4 from a point, 6 and 7 short- 

 stalked ; light grey ; cilia pale grey. 



St. Denis, Reunion ; one specimen in April. The 

 neuration of this species gives me occasion to remark 

 that, so far as my material enables me to judge, I do 

 not think the genera Hypsolophus {Ypsoloplws) and 

 Nothris are naturally distinct, or ought to be kept 

 separate. Heineman states several points of distinction 

 — the absence of ocelli, the shorter tuft of the palpi, the 

 constantly separate veins 2 and 3 of fore wings, and the 

 stalking of veins 6 and 7 of hind wings — as characteristic 

 of Nothris, but these seem to be illusory. The supposed 

 absence of ocelli is a mistake ; I find them distinct in 

 the typical verbascellus, and in all species which I have 

 examined ; but this character in the Gelechiadce is of 

 little value. The length of the tuft is purely specific 

 and varies with every species, being also a mere com- 

 parative difference. The two neural characters cut 

 against one another, being found variously interchanged 

 in nearly allied species ; thus, in H.fasciellus 2 and 3 of 

 fore wings are stalked, 6 and 7 of hind wings stalked 

 I though placed by Heinemann in his Ypsolophus ; perhaps 

 the character varies) ; in H. verbascellus 2 and 3 separate, 



6 and 7 stalked ; in H. ianthes 2 and 3 coincident, 6 and 



7 stalked ; in an undescribed Australian species 2 and 3 

 coincident, 6 and 7 separate ; in //. marginellus 2 and 3 

 separate, 6 and 7 separate ; 11. ustulellus 2 and 3 

 stalked, 6 and 7 separate : these represent all the 

 possible combinations, and one might therefore as well 

 make six genera as two. In my type of II. lemniscellus 

 6 and 7 are from a point, and therefore intermediate in 

 character. The species being, as a whole, all very 

 similar in appearance, their number certainly not 

 excessively large, and the genus in the extended sense 

 being strictly definable, natural, and easily recognisable, 

 I think it may well remain undivided. 



