Eastern and Australian Moths. 311 



Family duadrifidse. 



Subfamily Polybesmiinjs. 



MeJioptis ankara, nov. 



<j> . Head, thorax, and fore wings olive-grey, the latter 

 with a large black spot touching the costa a little before the 

 apex ; a small spot in the middle below it and another near 

 hinder angle ; a grey suffused band across the wing, its outer 

 edge touching the three spots ; a grey lunule at the end of 

 cell and two outwardly curved sinuous grey lines — ante- and 

 postmedial — each terminating in a black spot on the costa ; 

 marginal lunules grey : hind wings grey ; a medial brown 

 thin band corresponding to the outer line of the fore wings ; 

 a broad blackish marginal band ; the space between the bands 

 white ; cilia of both wings grey, with a pale basal line. 

 Underside nearly white ; fore wing with a brown spot at end 

 of cell; both wings with a central, outwardly curved, thin 

 brown band and broad brown marginal borders and white 

 cilia. 



Expanse of wings 1^ inch. 



Quetta, one example; Kandahar, one example. 



Family Hypenidae. 



Subfamily Deltoidinm. 



Catada charalis, nov. 



£ . Of a uniform pale purplish-brown colour ; palpi with 

 a white band and end of second joint and a thin white collar : 

 fore wings with three rather prominent, upright, dark brown 

 bands — first antemedial, second a little beyond the middle, 

 third submarginal; the first irregularly outwardly curved, the 

 second and third with two blunt outward angles and out- 

 wardly edged with white ; a brown spot at the end of cell : 

 hind wings without markings. Underside much paler; fore 

 wings with a white streak at costa representing second band, 

 submarginal white dots and white dots on cilia ; hind wings 

 w r ith discal and submarginal sinuous brown bands, outwardly 

 edged with white, and white dots on cilia; both wings with 

 white lunules at the end of each cell. 



Expanse of wings 1 inch. 



Coomoo, Queensland. Five examples. 



Allied to Catada vagalis, Walker, 



