158 AUSTRALIAN THYRIDIDAE AND PYRALIDAE 



HETEROMICTA LATRO. 



Melissoblaptes latro, Zel., zool-bot. v., 1873, p. 213. 



Aphomia Intro, Meyr., P.L.S.N.S.W. 1879, p. 238. 



Although very different in appearance to the preceding 

 species, there appears to be no structural difference to justify 

 generic separation. 



Q., Brisbane. N.S.W., Sydney. Y., Gibborne. S. A., Ade- 

 laide. 



t HETEROMICTA OCHRACEELLA. 



Heteromicta ochraceella , Hiups. 

 N.Q., Cooktown. 



tf HETEROMICTA NIGRICOSTELLA. 



Heteromicta niffvicostella, Hmps. 



Q., 



HETEROMICTA POLIOSTOLA, 9<. Sp. 



TToAioo-ToAos, grey-eloaked. 



$ 25 i)\_ni^. Head, thorax, palpi, and antennae pale-grey. 

 Palpi of ? porrect, rather long (2^) ; terminal joint down- 

 curved. Abdomen whitish. Legs whitish, irrorated with pale 

 grey. Forewings elongate-oval, costa rather strongly arched, 

 apex rounded, termen very obliquely rounded ; whitish 

 irrorated with grey ; a broadly suffused grey line from ^ 

 costa to ^ dorsum ; a grey median discal dot ; a postmedian 

 grey line f costa to f dorsum, angled outwards in middlf- ; cilia 

 grey mixed with whitish. Hindwings with termen rounded ; 

 whitish ; towards apex and termen suffused with pale grey ; cilia 

 whitish. 



Allied to H. paclnjtera, Meyr., but the lines of forewings 

 are broader and more suffused, the postmedian line not dentate, 

 the discal dot single and not dark fuscous, and there is no dark 

 fuscous terminal line. The palpi of the 2 are longer. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



Q., Brisbane; one specimen received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 

 Gen. 7. Tirathaba. 



Tiruthaha, Wlk., Brit. Mus. Cat., xxx., p. 961. 



MucialUi, Wlk., Brit. Mus. Cat., xxxv., p. 1739. Hmps.* 



Moths Ind., iv., p. 5. 



tirathaba rufivena. 



Lamoria (?) rufivena, Wlk., Brit. Mus. Cat., xxx., p. 960. 



JSiucialla rufivena, Hmps., Moths Ind., iv., p. 5. 



N.Q., Townsviile, from December to March ; three speci- 

 mens received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. Also from New Guinea, 

 Borneo, Ceylon and India. 



