MITHXJNA. METEURA. 



123 



B. Fore wing with vein 7 from after 10. 



237. Mitlimia strigifera, n. sp. 



5 . Grey-brown, Fore wing pale grey, sufFnsed with red-brown 



except on costal and ter- 

 minal areas ; a postmedial 

 black spot on costa, with 

 obscure line from it acutely 

 angled at vein 0, then 

 retracted to middle of vein 

 1 ; a dark streak in cell ; 

 three black points on cofta 



Yig.QQ.— Mithima strigifera, S- {■ towards apes, with an 



oblique streak from tb.e 

 ]ast almost to the angle of postmedial line ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing fuscous. 



Bab. SiKHiii, 1 $ type, Zell. Coll. E.vp. 28 millim. 



Genus TYLANTHE3. 



Tyi')e. 



Tylmthcs, Meyr . Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 4.59 ptorkias. 



Proboscis fully developed : palpi upturned, not reaching vertex of head ; 

 antenuEe of male ciliated; tibiae with the spurs moderate; abdomen clothed 

 with rough hair, lateral tufts of hair on terminal segment, the claspers and 

 anal tuft large. Fore wing rather broad ; male with some rough scales on 

 basal area on underside ; a thick tuft of short hair in a fovea below base of 

 vein 2, with a tuft of short hair above it on the broad costal fold which extends 

 to middle of wing ; the cell narrow, and the subcostal and median nervures 

 approximated; vein 2 from beyond middle of cell, curved round the fovea; 

 3, 4 stalked ; 5 absent ; 6, 7, 8, and 10 stalked, 9 absent; 11 free. Hind wing 

 with costal fold fringed with large scales and with tufts of large scales below 

 it; a very large and thick tuft of hair below middle of costa at end of costal 

 fold ; the median nervure giving off a single vein to costa at functional apex, 

 and the remainder of veins from cell absent, obliterated in the costil tufts 

 and fold. 



*238. Tylanthes ptochias. 



Tylanthes 2:)tochias, Mevr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 460 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 341. 



S . Yellow-brown ; hind 

 "wing pale yellow; the tufts 

 of scales in fovea on under- 

 side of fore wing and at end 

 of costal fold of hind wing 

 fuscous. 

 XT- f"7 ^ 7 ^1 t T f 1 Hah. N. Guinea, Port 



° ^ ' u 1 Moresby (Kowald), 1 d , typef 



in Coll. Meyrick. Exj). 2i millim. 



Genus METEURA, nov. 

 Type, M. cervina. 



Proboscis fully developed ; jialpi j^orrect, not reaching beyond the frons ; 

 antenna; of mule with long bristles and cilia ; tibiui vvilh the spurs moderate. 



