*270 Mr. E. Meyrick's descriptions of 



132. Autarotis curyala, n. s. 

 S , 21 mm. Head and palpi white, on sides light ochreous 

 AntenniE and thorax light ochreous. Abdomen whitish. Legs 

 white, anterior pair light ochreous. Fore wings broadly triangular, 

 costa hardly arched, apex round-pointed, hind margin slightly 

 rounded, waved, rather oblique ; pale greyish ochreous, with 

 scattered black scales on veins ; veins posteriorly suffusedly white ; 

 a white suffusion along inner margin from base to beyond middle, 

 above extremity of which is a large blackish dot ; three other 

 indistinct blackish dots transversely placed in disc beyond middle ; 

 a fine brownish ochreous line, posteriorly slenderly whitish mar- 

 gined, from three-fourths of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, 

 strongly curved outwards, bent above middle ; a fine blackish hind- 

 marginal line, forming small black spots on veins 2 and 3 ; cilia 

 shining grey-whitish, narrowly barred with white. Hind wings 

 and cilia white. 



Fiji (Matheiv) ; one specimen. 



Hednota, n. g. 



Forehead with a more or less developed cone ; ocelli present ; 

 tongue well developed. Antennae two-thirds of fore wings, in 

 male ciliated, dentate, or bipectinated. Labial palpi very long, 

 straight, porrected, loosely scaled, gi-adually attenuated. Maxillary 

 palj)i moderately long, porrected, triangularly scaled. Fore wings 

 with veins 4 and 5 separate or rarely stalked, 8 and 9 stalked, 11 

 sometimes bent. Hind wings with veins 4 and 5 from a point, 

 stalked, or rarely coincident, 6 remote from 7 at origin, anasto- 

 mosing with 8 more or less, lower median and 1 b pectinated ; 

 inner margin in male of one species {H. argyrocles) lobed and 

 folded, with tuft of hairs. 



I have formed this genus to include all the Australian 

 species (except lativittalis, Walk.) formerly classed by 

 me under Tkinanotia, from which they differ by having 

 veins G and 7 of hind wings remote at origin instead of 

 stalked. I find this character important, and a new 

 genus was therefore necessary. There are about twenty 

 Australian species, of which the following is one ; the 

 genus has not been identified elsewhere. 



133. Ilednota bijractella, Walk. 



Port Moresby, New Guinea (Matheir) ; one specimen. 

 Also from Eastern Australia. 



