of the Australian Pyralidina. 291 



Musotima ocliwpteralis, Gn. 



Isopteryx ochropteralis, Gn., 230. 



Varies very little. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; Fernsliaw, Victoria ; 

 Launceston, Tasmania ; Mount Lofty range, South 

 Australia ; in October, November, January, and March, 

 tolerably common. 



Fam. ?. 



The following genus cannot, I think, be included in 

 any of the families here given, on account of the 

 essentially different neuration of the hind wings ; but I 

 am not prepared to say whether it may not be classed 

 with the Pterophoridce ; the point will be discussed 

 hereafter. 



TiNEODES, Gn. 



Forehead flat, vertical. Ocelli present. Tongue very long and 

 slender. Antennae as long as fore wings (according to Guenee not 

 ciliated). Labial palpi very long, roughly scaled above and 

 beneath, gradually attenuated, straight, porrected, terminal joint 

 short, concealed. Maxillary palpi moderately long, considerably 

 dilated with loose scales. Legs very long and slender ; posterior 

 tibiffi (in female) with outer spurs two-thirds of inner. Abdomen 

 elongate, slender, more than twice the breadth of the hind wings, 

 ovipositor rather long, filiform. Fore wings with 8 and 9 stalked, 

 11 from middle of cell, long. Hind wings as broad as fore wings ; 

 3 and 4 remote; 5 and 6 fi-om transverse vein, rather nearer 

 together than to 4 or 7 ; 7 from angle of cell, only touchuig 8 at 

 about one-fifth. 



I have not seen a male. The neuration of the hind 

 wings is of a primitive type, as compared with ordinary 

 Pyralids. 



Tineodes adactylalis, Gn. 



Tineodes adactylalis, Gn., 237, pi. ix., 7 ; Carcantia 

 pterophoralis, Walk., 425. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; one specimen. Walker's 

 specimen is also Austrahan ; Guenee suggests Africa as 

 the locality of his type, but only conjecturally, and 

 there is at present no reason to suppose that the species 

 occurs outside Australia. 



