228 Mr. E. Meyrick on the 
an indistinet grey angulated mark in dise beyond middle; a sub- 
marginal series of indistinct darker spots; a dark grey hind- 
marginal line; cilia light grey, with a darker line. Hind wings 
pale yellowish-ochreous or greyish-ochreous, generally suffused 
with grey towards hind margin and longitudinally in disc; a dark 
grey hind-marginal line; cilia ochreous-grey-whitish, towards base 
sometimes suffused with grey, or with a darker line. 
Three specimens. 
10. Mxsrontoses, Butl. 
Forehead rounded, oblique. Ocelli present. Tongue well- 
developed. Antenne three-fourths, in male filiform, moderately 
ciliated (one-half), rough-scaled on back, basal joint stout. Labial 
palpi moderate, tolerably porrected, second joint with dense 
broadly projecting scales beneath, terminal joint rather short, pro- 
jecting or concealed. Maxillary palpi moderate, terminally dilated 
with scales, truncate. Abdomen in male with moderately large 
anal tuft, sometimes with lateral tufts near apex, valves exserted. 
Middle and posterior tibize in male sometimes with tufts; posterior 
tibiz with outer spurs two-thirds to four-fifths of inner. Fore 
wings with veins 8 and 9 stalked, 11 moderately oblique. Hind 
wings as broad as fore wings; vein 3 absent, 4 and 5 stalked, 7 
out of 6 near origin, anastomosing with 8 to near one-third; in 
male with a narrow lobe from base of inner margin, densely 
clothed with rough hairs or with an apical tuft of hairs, and 
generally with a pencil of hairs along costa from base. 
Certainly a further development of Orthomecyna. The 
various singular tufts and hair-pencils of this genus are 
specific characters only, not generic. 
1. Hind wings partially white or whitish ae .. 26. abnormis. 
<5 not “5 s at ve 2. 
2. Hind wings ochreous-yellow except apex .. .. 27. semiochrea. 
ws - only on costain male 28. minuscula. 
26. Mestolobes abnormis, Butl. 
Metasia abnormis, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soe. Lond., 
1882, 35 (2); Mestolobes enone, ib., 87 (3). 
3 2, 14—15 mm. Abdomen dark grey, in male ochreous- 
whitish towards base and apex. Legs white, anterior and middle 
pair partially banded with blackish, posterior tibize in male with 
brush of black scales above on terminal half, Fore wings oblong, 
