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transferred to the Tineida^, where it may be provisionally 

 placed near Hlero.resfis. 



NoTODRYAS, Meyr. 

 yofocI?'i/(is callierga, n. sj:). 



Male, 9 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax white. Antennae 

 grey, white towards base. Abdomen grey. Forewings with 

 vein 6 separate ; white ; markings brown irrorated with black- 

 ish ; an oblique mark from dorsum near base, reaching half 

 across wing ; an oblique fascia from dorsum beyond middle, 

 reaching § across wing ; a spot on tornus, and a longitudinal 

 mark in disc above it ; some dark scales at apex : cilia white, 

 towards base irregularly mixed with dark fuscous scales. 

 Hindwings light grey ; cilia white. 



Port Lincoln (Louth Bay), South Australia, in Novem- 

 ber ; one specimen. This differs from the other two species in 

 the separation of vein 6 of the forewings, but is clearly con- 

 generic. 



TINEID^. 

 Nepticula, Z. 



Head rough. Tongue rudimentary. Antennae ^-|, in 

 male simple, basal joint much enlarged and concave beneath 

 to form eyecap. Labial palpi short, filiform, drooping. Maxil- 

 lary palj^i long, filiform, folded. Posterior tibise with bristles 

 above, middle-spurs in or above middle. Forewings: lb 

 simple, cell usually open between 2 and 6, 3-5 absent, 7 to 

 costa, 8 oat of 7 or absent, 9 absent. Hindwings i-§, lanceo- 

 late, cilia 3-4 ; cell open between 2 and 6, 3-5 absent. 



I now include this and the other genera with antennal eye- 

 cap in the Tineidct. The present genus contains a number of 

 minute species, usually overlooked by collectors : only from Mr. 

 G. Lyell have I received a species. The larvae mine galleries 

 or blotches in leaves, and are without developed legs or pro- 

 legs, but with pairs of rudimentary ventral processes on seg- 

 ments 3, 4, and 6-11, or rarely wholly apodal. I have met 

 with other larvae of the genus besides those recorded, on Euca- 

 li/ptiis, Btuiksia, etc., but failed to rear them owing to the diffi- 

 culty of preventing these stiff leaves from drying up. Pupa 

 in a firm cocoon, usually outside the mine. I have not been 

 able to examine the neuration of all the following species, as 

 I could not spare material for denudation, and these tiny in- 

 sects cannot be examined otherwise, though I can manage al- 

 most anything else ; but in those which I have denuded the 

 neuration was exactly like that of the European X. tityreUa 

 figured in my "Handbook." Some of the species are remark- 

 able for the development of secondary sexual characters, in 

 the form of black scales, especially on the hindwings, which 



