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Genus CALAMIDIA. 



Type. 

 €alamidia, Butl. Trans. Eut. Soc. 1877, p. 358 hirta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, of male with the 2nd joint long 

 and slender, the 3rd joint longer than the 2nd, subclavate and bent forward, of 

 female not reaching vertex of liead ; antennae of female with bristles and cilia ; 

 tibiiB with the spurs moderate ; abdomen clothed with rough hair. Fore wing 

 long and narrow, the costa arched, the apes rounded ; vein 2 from middle of 

 cell, curved at base ; 3 from well before angle ; 5 absent ; 6 from below or from 

 angle or shortly stalked with 7 ; 'J from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 ai-eole ; 7 from areole ; 1 1 free, curved. Hind wing with vein 2 from middle 

 of cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 absent; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of 

 ceU. 



37-1. Calamidia hirta. 



Lithosia hirta, Wlk. ii. 510, $ (1851); Meyr, P. Linn. Soc. N. S, W. (2) 



i. p. 694 , Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 339. 

 Calamidia salpincfis, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. G94, c? (1886); 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 339. 



S . Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; abdomen ochreous 

 yellow ; legs whitish ochreous ; fore femora fuscous above. Fore 

 wing whitish ochreous suffused with pale fuscous, except an elongate 



Fig. 98. — Calamidia hirta, §. \. 



elliptical patch below the cell from base to middle, the suffusion 

 below and beyond it darker ; cilia whitish ochreous tinged with 

 fuscous. Hind wing ochreous yellow. 



$ . Head and thorax white tinged with fuscous ; abdomen pale 

 orange-yellow. Fore wing yellowish white, the veins slightly 

 tinged with brown, the inner area suffused with pale brown to 

 beyond middle, where it is joined by a very ill-defined diffused pale 

 brown fascia from middle of termen. Hind wing pale orange- 

 yellow. 



Hah. jS". S. Wales, Sydney {Darnel, Jlatheiv), 4 $ , type Yir- 

 roKiA. Exj). 44-50 millim. 



Genus MONOTAXIS, nov. 



Type, M. trimaculata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, not reaching beyond the frons ; 

 antennae of female ciliated ; tibiae with the spurs moderate. Fore wing long 

 and narrow ; vein 2 from middle of cell, curved at base ; 3 from well before 

 iingle ; 5 absent; from below upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 free. 

 Hind wing with vein 2 from middle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 absent ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



