( 211 ) 



siiort, conical ; c? : segments compressed, rectangular in side-view ; ? : almost 

 cylindrical, basal seriated ciliae rudimentary. Abdomen with spinules only at the 

 edges of the tergites. Tibiae not spinose ; spurs short, two pairs to hindtibia ; 

 pulvillus and paronychiiira present, tiie latter with two long thin lobes at each 

 side ; tarsi heavily scaled. Distal margins of wings entire, apex of forewing 

 mmcate ; SC'- and R' of hind wing on a rather long stalk, D- very oblique, more 

 or less curved, longer than D^. 



Early stages not known to us. 



Hah. Eastern jiarts of Australia. 



One species. 



173. Metamimas australasiae. 



Siilniis amtralimac Donovan, /.<■. t. ,-;:;. f, 1 (?)(18llij). 



Arhei-oiilia atistralti«iiii; Boisdiival, !'(.//. Aali-ohihf, Lip. \>. 181. n. 2 (18:j2) (Aiistial). 



Cneqiiom amttralaairie, Walker, l.r. viii. p. i'jT. n. "2 (18:jli) (N.S.W.); Mi'sk., Pnv. Ha//, .s'nr, Qiirdiald- 



viii. p. 22. n. 3(j (18',il) (Xewcastle : Bri-ibaae). 

 Urncln/glossa iiiiKimluHkie, Bnisduval, Spef. Ghi. Lep. llet. i. p, 10. n. 2 (1875) ((J : lar\a on Banhaia)- 

 *Bmi-Iii/i/losm bankiine id., / c. p. 11. n. 3. t. 3. f. 1 (1875). 

 Mrttiniitnas aiistralasiiie, Butler, /.r. ix. p. 582. n. 1 (1877) : Kirby, Tnnix Enl. So: Loud. p. 237 



(1877) ; id., Cit. Lcp. ITh. i. p. 701 n. 1 (1892). 

 .Mefnm/mris hniil.-sinp, Butler. I.e. p. 028 (1877). 



cJ?. Basal area of forewing Of S more or less pale grey, while the wing of 

 the ? is uniform in ground-colour. 



cJ. Tenth tergite (PI. XXIII. f. 23) longitudinally impressed above, strongly 

 chitiuised, narrowed to a curved hook, distal portion carinate beneath, transsection 

 prismatical, tip pointed; sternite a rather low, strongly chitinised ridge, which is 

 somewhat bent upwards, faintly eraarginate, minutely notched or granulose at the 

 edge, witli the sides roundi-d. (^'lasper large, rounded at ape.K, ivithnnt patch of 

 friction-ycales, scales at and near dorsal edge very long ; harpe with two processes, 

 both ventral, pointing obliquely upwards, one proximal of the other, subbasal, the 

 npjier eilge of the more distal one continued dorso-basad as a low ridge (PI. XXXI. 

 f. 23). Penis-sheath without armature. 



?. Eighth tergite transverse, rounded-truncate, angles strongly rounded. 

 Vaginal plate (PI. XVI. f. 2) large, strongly chitinised, distal margin rounded, 

 edge meraliranaceous ; orifice jiostmedian (r), situated at the end of a prominent 

 mesial carina ; sides deeply concave. 



Uah. Australia, eastern part. 



In the Tring Museum .'< S$, IS ? ? from N. S, Wales and South Queensland. 



LIV. COEQUOSA.— Typns: tiianquUn-h. 



Spliiii.e, Donovan (,ir,„ Linn.', 1758), /«.-•. .\. /foil. t. 33 (1805). 



Aeheiontiu, Boisduval (noii Laspeyrcs, 1800), Voij. Astrolabe, Lip. p. 181 (1832). 



Braclifff/limo id. (mn id., 1820), Sper. G(n. Lip. t. 12 B (183G). 



Cotqiiom Walker, /./»/ Lep. Lis. B. .1/. viii. p. 257 (1850) (partim ; type; Irkmyidnris). 



Oaequom (!), Butler, Tm,,,'. Ziml Hoe. Loud. i.\. p. 507 (1877). 



<??. Differs from .yi'/rii//i//>(is in tiie hindtibia having only one pair of spurs, 

 in the retiuiicnlnm beirjg absent and the frenulum vestigial, in tiie more rounded, 

 not distinctly trnncate, apA of the fon^wiiig, and in the less <)bli([ni' up|ier cross- 

 vein of the hindwin"-. 



