114 AUSTRALIAN THYRIDIDAE AND PYRALIDAE 



A variable species in colour and details of marking. Walker 

 has used the same specific name in the genus Pyralis twice 

 within a few pages. 



N.Q., Geraldton (Johnstone River), Townsville. Walker 

 has made the same error in the locality of this species as with 

 regard to the preceding and many others collected by the late Mr. 

 Diggles. 



Also from Solomons and Borneo. 



Faji. PYRALIDAE. 



Proboscis and maxillary palpi usually well developed ; 

 frenulum present. Forewing with vein 1a usually free, some- 

 times forming a fork with In ; Ic absent ; 5 from near lower 

 angle of cell ; 8, 9 almost always stalked. Hindwing with veins 

 1a, b, c present ; 5 almost always from near lower angle of cell ; 

 8 approximated to 7 or anastomosing with it beyond the cell 

 (Hampson). 



An immense family especially well represented in warm 

 regions, where it rivals in number the Nortuidae and Geometridae. 

 The tabulation of the sub-families will be given with the con- 

 cluding instalment of this revision. 



SuBFAM. PHYCITINAE. 



A very large group, the species being most numerous within 

 or near the tropics. They are for the most part of small size 

 and obscure in colour and marking. Species structurally 

 different are often superficially very similar. It should be 

 recognised that descriptions of species in this group are quite 

 useless unless accompanied by accurate structural determination. 

 The classification of the sub-family by neural characters is for 

 the 'most part easy ami natural, but the group containiug the 

 large genera PhijciUi, Xcjiliopteri/.r, and Kpicrocis forms an 

 exception. The definitions I have adopted of these genera I 

 regaad as merely provisional. 



I have unfortunately not been able to consult Ragonot's 

 great work on the Fhi/ritinae and GoJlcrianae, and I have 

 probably committed many omissions and not a few errors in 

 consequence. The deficiency has been partly supplied by the 

 tabulation in Hampson's Moths of India, and by much generous 

 assistance received from this author in the determination of 

 species. 



For the convenience of study I have divided the tabulation 

 of the genera into three section. The first of these corresponds 

 to the Aneraatianae of Hampson, which I am not inclined to 

 regard as a distinct subfamily. 



