classification of the Tincina. 125 



All these occur in Australia, to which region Crjjpto- 

 phasa is confined, and there are five or six new Australian 

 genera. South America appears specially rich in this 

 family and probably contains many additional genera. 



(ECOPHORHLE. 



Antennae ciliated in male. Fore wings with 12 veins 

 (rarely 11 by coalescence of 7 and 8), 7 and 8 stalked, 

 7 to hind margin, apex, or costa, 2 from or near angle 

 of cell. Hind wings with 8 veins, 3 and 4 from a point 

 (rarely stalked), 6 and 7 separate, nearly parallel. Hind 

 wings not broader than fore wings (very rarely slightly 

 broader), hind margin rounded or slightly sinuate. 



Bather largely represented in Europe, and extremely 

 abundant in Australia and New Zealand, where it is the 

 principal family of the Lepidoptera ; little recorded from 

 elsewhere, but certainly occurring in India and North 

 and South America. The European species number 

 about 100 ; from Australia and New Zealand I have 450, 

 and the entire number inhabiting that region probably 

 exceeds 2000. 



The following is a classification of the European 

 genera, including the only described exotic genus cer- 

 tainly referable : — 



A. Vein 7 of fore wings to hind margin or apex. 



Anchinia, Hb. Aplota, Stph. 

 Cacochroa, Hein. Protasis, H-S. 



Hypercallia, Stph. Topeutis, Hb. 



*Peltophora, Meyr. *Pleurota, Hb. 

 Holoscolia, Z. Hypatima, H-S. 



B. Vein 7 of fore wings to costa. 

 Gonionota, Z. Harpella, Schrk. 



PSECADIA, Hb. *(EC0PH0RA, Z. 



To the Australian genus Peltophora belongs forficella, 

 Sc, hitherto erroneously included in Harpella. The 

 three genera marked (*) are all freely represented in 

 Australia, whence (including New Zealand) I have 

 characterised also 67 new genera, now being published 

 in the Proc. Linn. Soc. of New South Wales. I have 

 included the South American Gonionota, though im- 

 perfectly characterised, because it is evidently so nearly 



