304 Mr. E. Meyrick on the classification 



about half inner; anterior tibiae in male very short, strongly 

 dilated with hairs. Abdomen elongate, in male with very slender 

 pointed anal tiift ; valves retracted. Fore wings with veins 10 and 

 11 short-stalked in male, long-stalked in female. Hind wings as 

 broad as fore wings ; 3, 4, 5 closely approximated at base ; 7 out of 

 G near origin, anastomosing with 8 almost to apex. Fore wings in 

 male with an indentation beneath costa before middle, covered 

 above by a rough double coalescing tuft of hairs, and a tuft of 

 hairs from middle of costa curved back over disc. 



Lederer did not make out the peculiar venation of the 

 fore wings, which destroys the distinction of his family 

 Homophysida ; nor am I aware that it has been noticed 

 since. This and the following genus belong to a group 

 specially characterised by the structure of veins 7 and 8 

 of the hind wings, which anastomose throughout almost 

 the whole of their length. The tufts or excrescences on 

 the fore wings of the male in this and some other 

 species are probably not to be depended on as generic 

 characters, which are here well marked in the neuration. 



Cnaphalocrocis rutilalis, Walk. 



Bptys rutilalis, Walk., 665 ; B. iolealis, ib., 666 ; B. 

 oiurscialis, ib., 724 ; Cnaphalocrocis iolinalis, Ld., 

 pi. xii., 7. 



Duaringa, Queensland; sent commonly by Mr. G. 

 Barnard. Also occurs in Celebes, Borneo, China, 

 Ceylon, India, and Texas (the last locality on the 

 authority of Snellen). 



DOLICHOSTICHA, n. g. 



Forehead flat, somewhat oblique. Ocelli present. Tongue well 

 developed. Antennae four-fifths of fore wings, slender, pubescent, 

 joints somewhat expanded in middle, with terminal whorls of 

 scales in male (?). Labial palpi moderate, somewhat ascending, 

 2nd joint with long dense scales produce<l beneath in a broad sub- 

 quadrate tuft, terminal joint small, concealed. Maxillary palpi 

 rather short, dilated with scales towards apex. Posterior tibiae 

 with outer middle-spurs about half, outer end-spurs three-fourths 

 of inner. Abdomen moderate, in male (?). Fore wings with vein 

 11 long, oblique. Hind wings somewhat broader than fore wings ; 

 3, 4, 5 tolerably approximated at base, 7 out of 6 near origin, 

 anastomosing with 8 almost throughout. 



Near Cnaphalocrocis, but 10 and 11 of fore wings 

 separate. 



