450 Colonel C. Swinhoc — A J\evisioii of the 



Natnrne/ should be fixed as the iioraenclatorial starting- 

 point. 



The types of Liparis, Ochsenlieimer, and " Lymantria," 

 Iliihner, are the same (" Monacha of Linnjeus ''), and as the 

 former has precedence the family ranst stand as Liparidie. 



Strand, in Seitz's Macrolep. ii. (1917), calls the family 

 iiiparidaj, but ignores the genus Lipnris and uses the name 

 Lymnntria. 



Tlie genus Anthela — distinguished by the very peculiar 

 structure of the areole in the fore wing, which is broad and 

 extends nearly to the apex of the wing, and the wide 

 separation of vein 8 in the hind wing from the cell — Turner 

 makes a subfamily of the Liparidae'in the first of liis very 

 important papers on the Australian species of the family. 

 But in his last paper in Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S.Wales, May 

 1921, he makes the Anthelidae a sepai'ate family ; but as its 

 relation to the Liparidse is very evident I prefer leaving it as 

 a subfamily of the Liparidae. 



Lord Rothschild points out that many generic names in 

 this family are wrongly placed, and I have considered it 

 necessary to prove this, to give the types of each generic 

 name with its proper reference in its proper place. 



I have sunk many so-called genera under Nyymia and 

 other genera : most of them are identical in structure with 

 the type-genera; some of them vary in unimportant points, 

 which I consider cannot be called generic. 



All the species in which Kirby is quoted, except those 

 mentioned as being in the B.M. or Mus. Oxon., represent 

 forms unknown to me. 



Subfamily AnxHEziNJi. 

 The Antheliuae are almost entirely Australian, most of 

 them have been described by Walker from types in the 

 British Musuem and the Oxford Museum. Dr. Turner has 

 sunk many of them, having had before him larger series 

 than we possess in England ; according to Dr. Turner, tiie 

 variability of many of the species is very great, certainly 

 the type-specimens of many of the species sunk are so 

 different I'rom each other as to justify their description as 

 separate species. 



Genus Pterolocera, Walker, iv. p. 883 (1855). 

 1. Pterolocei'a amplicornis. 



Pterulocera amplicornis, Walker, iv. p. 884. 



Jierolocera similis, Walker, /. c. 



Ftervloccra insiynin, IJerr.-Scbiiff. Lep. Exot. 1858, p, 458. 



Types, J , Adelaide, in B.M. ; Melbourne. 



