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  XIV. 
  A 
  New 
  Family 
  of 
  Lepidoptera, 
  the 
  Anthelidae. 
  By 
  

   A. 
  Jefferis 
  Turner, 
  M.D., 
  F.E.S. 
  

  

  [Read 
  October 
  15th, 
  1919.] 
  

  

  The 
  Australian 
  moths 
  belonging 
  to 
  the 
  genns 
  Anthela 
  

   and 
  its 
  allies 
  have 
  given 
  some 
  trouble 
  to 
  systematists. 
  

   Usually, 
  I 
  think, 
  they 
  are 
  regarded 
  as 
  a 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  family 
  

   Liparidae 
  {Lymantriidae), 
  and 
  they 
  have 
  been 
  so 
  arranged 
  

   by 
  Sir 
  George 
  Hampson 
  in 
  

   the 
  collection 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  

   Museum. 
  Until 
  recently 
  I 
  

   concurred 
  in 
  this 
  opinion, 
  

   but, 
  recognising 
  that 
  they 
  

   showed 
  certain 
  peculiarities, 
  

   I 
  treated 
  them 
  as 
  a 
  separate 
  

   subfamily, 
  the 
  Anthelinae 
  

   (Trans. 
  Ent. 
  Soc, 
  1904, 
  p. 
  

   469). 
  For 
  this 
  view 
  there 
  

   appeared 
  to 
  be 
  sufficient 
  

   justification, 
  for 
  they 
  agree 
  

   with 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  the 
  Liparidae 
  

   (as 
  generally 
  known) 
  in 
  the 
  

   absence 
  of 
  a 
  proboscis, 
  in 
  

   the 
  neuration 
  of 
  the 
  hind- 
  

   wings, 
  in 
  the 
  fore-wings 
  

   having 
  vein 
  5 
  arising 
  from 
  

   near 
  the 
  lower 
  angle 
  of 
  the 
  

   cell, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  presence 
  of 
  

   an 
  areole. 
  The 
  areole 
  is 
  

  

  present 
  in 
  the 
  more 
  primitive 
  genera 
  of 
  the 
  Liparidae, 
  

   though 
  many 
  have 
  lost 
  it. 
  In 
  the 
  Anthelidae, 
  however, 
  the 
  

   areole 
  is 
  always 
  present, 
  and 
  shows 
  important 
  structural 
  

   pecuharities. 
  

  

  The 
  accompanying 
  figure 
  shows 
  the 
  neuration 
  of 
  one 
  of 
  

   the 
  more 
  primitive 
  genera 
  of 
  the 
  Liparidae. 
  It 
  will 
  be 
  

   noted 
  that 
  it 
  shows 
  the 
  presence 
  of 
  an 
  areole 
  typically 
  

   formed, 
  from 
  which 
  arise 
  vein 
  10 
  by 
  a 
  separate 
  stalk, 
  and 
  

   7, 
  8, 
  9 
  by 
  a 
  common 
  stalk. 
  This 
  structure 
  occurs 
  also 
  in 
  

   other 
  families, 
  such 
  as 
  the 
  Arctiadae, 
  Noctuidae, 
  Nofodon- 
  

  

  TRANS. 
  ENT. 
  SOC. 
  LOND, 
  1919. 
  — 
  PARTS 
  III, 
  IV. 
  (deC.) 
  

  

  Fig. 
  1.- 
  — 
  Laelia 
  obsoleta 
  Fab. 
  

  

  