ronnectin;/ Thuccjeria irWi Eretmocera. 19 



streak is scarcely divided from the black dorsal half, blending with 

 it beyond the middle, the black is continued aronud the apical 

 margin at the base of the cilia as far as the apex ; cilia also dark, 

 but with a slight brownish gloss. Under side pale reddish orange, 

 suffused with brown within the anal angle. Hind ivings whitish 

 about the base of the abdominal margin, inclining to transparency, 

 suffused with orange-yellow towards the costal niargin, a broad 

 band of brown along the dorsal margin towards the apex; cilia 

 glossy brown. Under side pale reddish orange, suffused with 

 brown around the dorsal margin. Abdomen : the anterior portion 

 is dark brown, separated from the glossy black anal segments by a 

 very narrow whitish line behind the middle, posteriorly fringed 

 with projecting glossy brownish scales adjoining the anal tuft. 

 Under side blackish. Legs glossy black, with strong tufts of scales 

 above the spurs ; spurs white. Ex2y. al. 21 mm. 



Hah. Fiji [F. c(' R.), Australia (B. M.), 66, 125. 



This description is taken from the British Museum 

 specimen, which is also a ? . — Wlsm. 



G^DEMATOPODA, Z. = AtKINSONIA, Stn. 



(Edematopoda, Z. 



Eretmocera (A) OedematojMda, Z,, Handl. Kong. Svensk. 

 Ak., 1852, 96. 



Type, 2. (Edematopoda princeps, 7i. 



" Eretmocera. 



" Char, essent. — Capiit heve. Antennae uno latere squamis pili- 

 formibus alatse, apice nudo. Alae elongatae. 



" Char. nat. — Antennae uno latere dense squamato-piloss, pilis 

 sensini longitudine acutis, apice nudo. Capilli appressi, fronte 

 rotundata. Palpi labiales mediocres, recurvi, articulo terminali 

 longiore, tenui acuto. Haustellum mediocre spirale. Alae elon- 

 gatae ciliis longis, posteriorum angulo anali subnullo. Abdomen 

 breviusculum, crassum, planiusculum. Pedes robuvsti, tibiarum 

 spinae longiusculae. 



" (A) Oedematoijoda. — Antenn* apice breviter nudo, pilis longis. 

 Pedes medii et postici in articulorum apicibus squamato-nodosi, 

 spinis uno latere pilosis. Abdominis latera non squamis margi- 

 natum. 



" Genus hoc Oecophorce earn partem, quiB esperellayn, selenieUam, 

 cJienopodiellam, etc. continet, cum Elachistis ceretella, modestella, 

 etc. conjungere videtur. Distinguitur ab utrisque antennis non 



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