of the Australian Pyralidina. 305 



Dolichosticha venilialis, Walk. 

 Asopia venilialis, Walk., 373 ; Botys marisalis, ib., 

 717. 



? , 17 mm. Head pale oclireous, with a fine white hne on each 

 side of face. Palpi ochreouB, beneath white. Antenna; whitish 

 ochreouB. Thorax light ochreouK, paler posteriorly. Abdomen 

 pale oclireous, apex darker, base whitish. Legs whitish. Fore 

 wings moderate, triangular, costa straight, moderately arched 

 towards apex, apex obtuse, hind margin obliquely rounded ; whitish 

 ochreous, thinly scaled ; costa between first and second lines with 

 about eight small dark fuscous spots ; a rather broad indistinct 

 fuscous suffusion beneath costa from base to second line ; lines 

 fine, fuscous ; first from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner 

 margin, slightly curved ; second from three-fourths of costa to 

 middle of inner margin, shortly sinuate beneath costa, abruptly 

 right-angled at two-thirds to below discal spot ; discal spot rathw 

 small, linear, dark fuscous; a moderately broad fuscous hind 

 marginal band, darker anteriorly, rather dilated on costa, and 

 again more abruptly at anal angle to touch angulation of second 

 line ; a darker hind marginal line ; cilia ochreous-whitish, with a 

 dark grey line at one-third. Hind wings ochreous-whitish, semi- 

 transparent ; a tolerably straight fine liiscous line from opposite 

 one-third of costa to two-thirds of inner margin ; a short straight 

 similar line slightly beyond middle from near costa to between 

 veins 2 and 3 ; hind marginal bund and cilia as in fore wings. 



The male is unknown to me, and may perhaps have 

 peculiar characters. A pale inconspicuous species. 



Rosewood, Queensland, in Septemljer ; Sydney, New 

 South Wales, in May ; three specimens. Also occurs 

 in Borneo. Snellen returned it as unknown to him. 



Bgeotarcha, n. g. 

 Forehead flat, very oblique. Ocelli present. Tongue well 

 developed. Antenn* two-thirds of fore wings, in male apparently 

 stout, ciliated (?). Labial palpi moderately long, straight, porrected, 

 with dense tolerably appressed scales, terminal joint moderate. 

 Maxillary palpi moderate, dilated with dense scales towards apex, 

 obliquely truncate. Posterior tibia; in female with outer spurs one- 

 third of inner. Abdomen long, in male proportionately very stout, 

 pointed ; in female (?j. Fore wings with vein 11 moderately long 

 and oblique. Hind wings broader by one-fourth than fore wings ; 

 3, 4, 5 closely approximated at base, 7 out of G near origin, anasto- 

 mosing with 8 very shortly to one-fifth. 



