FAM. MICROPTERYGIDZE 3 
— Forvewings with 9 absent, ro separate... . . .« «4 « . 3. Genus EnrocRANIA, Zeller. 
5. Vein rr of forexings with long posterior branch 
— Vein zr of forewings without branch 
6. Forewings with veins 7 and 8 stalked. . . . . . . . . . 8.Genus SaBATINCA, Walker. 
— Forewings with veins 7 and 8 separate... . . . . . . 7. Genus MICROPARDALIS, nov. gen. 
7. Forewings with veins 7 and & stalked 5. Genus EPruanTvRIA, Walsingham. 
— Forewings with veins 7 and 8 separate . 2... . 6. Genus MrcgoperEnyx, Hübner. 
Il. SUBFAM. MNESARCHZAEINZE 
Characters. — No mandibles. Tongue short. Labial palpi well-developed. Middle tibiz with 
two apical spurs. 
Il. GeNus MNESARCHZAEA, MEYRICK 
Mnesarchaea. Meyrick, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. p. 180 (1885). — Type : M. faracosma, Meyrick. 
Characters. — Head loosely haired, sides of crown rough. Antennze three-fourths, rather stout, 
filiform. Labial palpi moderately long, straight, porrected, clothed with dense scales forming a rough 
terminal brush. Maxillary palpi short, terminating in a loose porrected brush of long scales. Middle 
tibize with median and apical whorls of spines, and two apical spurs: posterior tibize thinly clothed with 
long hairs or bristles above, with spurs placed in whorls of spines. Forewings with rb simple, 2 from 
angle, 6 out of 8 or separate, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to termen, 9 and ro from posterior third of cell, rr absent. 
Hindwings under 1, acute-lanceolate, cilia rather over 1; neuration as in forewings, but 6 alwavs 
separate. 
Geographical distribution of species. — This most curious and interesting genus is only 
known from New Zealand. It occupies an intermediate position between the typical M7crofterygtdae on 
the one hand. and the Plutellidae and. Tineidae on the other, and undoubtedly indicates the true line of 
transition ; but the absence of vein rx in the forewings shows that it is not actually on the direct line, 
but on a short offshoot with some special modification. 
1. M. paracosma, Meyrick, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. p. 180 (1885). — Plate, New Zealand. 
Eigm9r 
2. M. loxoscia, Meyrick, ibidem. p. 9o (1887). New Zealand. 
3. M. hamadelhha. Meyrick, ibidem, p. 91 (1887). .— Plate, Fig. 5. New Zealand. 
2. SUBFAM. ERIOCRANIANZ/E 
Characters. — No mandibles. Tongue short. Labial palpi well-developed. Middle tibie with 
one apical spur. 
2. GENUS NEOPSEUSTIS, MEYRICK 
Neopseustis, Mevrick, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. Vol. 19, p. 436 (1909). — Type : N. calliglauca, 
Meyrick. 
Characters. — lead with short loose hairs. Antenne three-fourths, filiform. Labial palpi 
moderate, porrected, filiform, with appressed scales. Maxillary palpi long, severaljointed, filiform, 
