276 Mr. E. Meyrick's descriptions of 



joint blackish, second joint very long, more brownish-ochreous, 

 irrorated with blackish, terminal joint half second ; anterior and 

 middle legs suffused with dark fuscous, except apex of joints. 

 Fore wings elongate, costa moderately arched, ajiex obtuse, hind 

 margin obliquely rounded ; whitish-ochreous, sometimes thinly 

 irrorated with fuscous, with a few fine scattered black scales ; 

 costal edge blackish at base ; a rather large black dot in disc 

 at two-fifths, a second in disc beyond middle, and a third, smaller 

 and sometimes nearly obsolete, on fold obliquely beyond first ; a 

 hind-marginal row of very indistinct cloudy minute dark fuscous 

 dots ; cilia whitish-ochreous, with some scattered fuscous and 

 black points. Hind wings whitish-ochreous, irrorated with pale 

 grey, towards base sometimes suffused with very pale grey ; cilia 

 whitish-ochreous, sometimes with a faint cloudy greyish line. 



Kandy and Point de Galle, Ceylon ; in December and 

 January, three specimens. The generic identity of this 

 insect with the New Zealand species of Phceosaces is 

 interesting, as I am not aware of the genus occurring in 

 Australia ; the only structural points in which it differs 

 from the New Zealand species are the presence of 

 ocelli, to which I attach no importance, and the 

 relatively shorter terminal joint of the palpi. 



PLUTELLID^l. 

 Ancylometis, n. g. 

 Head smooth, side tufts tolerably appressed. Ocelli appa- 

 rently absent. Tongue well-developed. Antennae j, in male 

 serrate, joints very short, minutely ciliated (J), basal joint 

 moderate, without pecten. Labial palpi moderately long, recurved, 

 second joint somewhat exceeding base of antennae, thickened with 

 dense appressed scales, terminal joint shorter than second, slender 

 or somewhat thickened with appressed scales, acute. Maxillary 

 palpi very short, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae more or less 

 densely clothed with rough hairs. Fore wings with vein 1 furcate, 

 2 from near angle, 7 absent (coincident with 8). Hind wings 

 slightly narrower than fore wings, elongate-ovate, cilia J ; in 

 male with a thickened cliscal or marginal ridge ; veins 8 and 4 

 from a point, 5 more or less closely approximated to 4 at base or 

 absent, 6 and 7 parallel. 



An early form of the family, and, I think, indicating 

 some approach to the connection with the (Ecophoridce. 



