563 TINEINA. 



aureocuprea, Swinh., Cat East, and Austral. Lp. Het. Oxf. Mus. I. 126, No. 581, 

 PI. III. 2i (1892) 2 . 



Type . (Coll. Saunders) Mus. OXF. 



Hob. MALAYSIA GILOLO 1 2 (Wallace], one specimen. Mus. OXF. 

 [Drnt. Det. 3684 (1899).] 



This species agrees with the type of Buxeta, except that vein 9 of the 

 forewings is not approximated to 10 on the costa. The genera allied to 

 Mieza, Wkr., have been referred by some authors to the Lithosiadcp. , 

 and by others to the Hyponomeutidce. When these have been collated 

 aureocuprea may perhaps be included elsewhere, but the structural 

 difference between it and conflagrans is so slight that it would certainly 

 be unwise to separate them on account of the slight variation in a single 

 vein in the unique types of the two species. [Drnt.] 



MIEZA, Wkr. 



EUSTIXIS, Hb., Zutr. Samml. exot. Schm. III. 24 (1825). 

 = MIEZA, Wkr., Cat. Lp. Ins. BM. II. 527 (1854). = E3SL2EMIA, 

 Z., Verh. ZB. Ges. Wien. XXII. (1872) Abh. 562 (1872). 



Sufficient confusion has already arisen between the genera Eustixia, 

 Hb. (type pupula, Hb.), and Eustixis, Hb. (\yyt pitpula, Hb.), to justify 

 the adoption of Mieza, Wkr., in lieu of Eustixis^ Hb. 



3667. Mieza (?) sanguinicornis, Wlsm. sp. n. 



Antenna blood-red, basal joint bright yellow. Palpi upturned, 

 reaching to the top of the head, of even width throughout ; blood-red, 

 terminal joint bright yellow. Head bright yellow, with a reddish tinge 

 posteriorly. Thorax bright yellow, with a transverse blood-red band 

 across the middle. Forewings pale yellow ; an irregular blood-red streak 

 starting from the base follows the dorsum to its middle ; at the middle of 

 the dorsum it rises obliquely upward, and passing across the fold (along 

 which it sends a short branch to the tornus) reaches the costa before the 

 apex, and is continued along the base of the cilia around the apex and 

 termen ; another blood-red patch occupies the extreme base of the costa, 

 and sends a somewhat bifurcate streak along the cell to one-third the 

 length of the wing, where its lower point touches the fold ; immediately 

 above and before the tornus a slight excrescence protrudes upwards from 

 the red streak ; cilia yellow on their outer half : underside uniformly 

 blood- red, the extreme margins narrowly yellow. Exp. al. 19 mm. 

 Hindwings roseate ; cilia with a faint yellowish tinge on their outer half : 

 underside roseate, with a red shade along the costa. Abdomen roseate. 

 Legs pale ochreous, with a roseate tinge on the hind tibiae. 



Type <j. Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. [CEYLON (G. Lewis). Mus. Wlsm.] 



Mus. OXF. One specimen, Ceylon (Thwaites, 1873). [Wlsm. Det. 60 



(1893)-] 

 This is not a true Mieza, differing in veins 3 and 4 of the hindwings, 



