of the Australian Pijralidina. 303 



Sumatra, and Celebes. I should like to see a series 

 from various localities. 



SCELIODES, Gn. 

 Forehead with a moderate obtuse conical projection. Ocelli 

 present. Tongue well developed. Antennae two-thirds of fore 

 wings, in male serrate, ciliated with tufts of cilia (1). Labial palpi 

 rather long, straight, porrected, somewhat ascending, basal joint 

 with a projecting tuft beneath, 2nd joint with evenly projecting 

 scales, somewhat produced at apex beneath, terminal joint rather 

 slender, moderate, exposed, with appressed scales. Maxillary palpi 

 extremely short, filiform. Posterior tibiae with spm-s extremely 

 short, outer spurs somewhat shorter than inner. Abdomen elon- 

 gate, in male with a moderate anal tuft ; valves large, exserted. 

 Fore wings with vein 11 moderately long and oblique. Hmd 

 wings as broad as fore wings ; 3,4,5 tolerably remote ; 7 out of 6 

 near origin, anastomosing with 8 to one-third. 



Not nearly allied to any genus known to me; cha- 

 racterised specially by the peculiarly short spurs. 

 Snellen's genus Eretria was founded on this species, 

 and must lapse. 



Sceliodes cordalis, Dbld. 



Margaritia cordalis, Dbld., Dieff. N. Z., ii., 288 ; S. 

 mucidalis, Gn., 400 ; Daraba extensalis, Walk., 

 Suppl., 1311 ; Eretria ohsistalis, Snell., Tijd. v. 

 Ent., 1880, 206 ; ib., 1883, pi. vi., 12. 



Guenee's description is sufficiently good ; Snellen's 

 figure is poor, but he informs me that his species is 

 identical with a type of this insect which I sent him. 



Duaringa, Queensland ; Sydney, New South Wales ; 

 Mount Lofty range, South Australia ; Taranaki and 

 Wanganui, New Zealand. Tolerably common in February 

 and March, coming freely to lamps, but not often seen 

 otherwise. Also from Celebes. 



Cnaphalocrocis, Ld. 



Forehead flat, oblique, somewhat ridged in front. Ocelli present. 

 Tongue well developed. Antennae three-fourths of fore wings, in 

 male filiform, joints angularly projecting towards apex, evenly 

 cihated (^). Labial palpi moderately long, straight, porrected, 

 triangularly scaled. Maxillary palpi moderate, dilated with loose 

 scales towards apex, truncate. Posterior tibiae with outer spurs 



