1899.] OF THE STJBPAMILT PXRAFSTIN^. 281 



moderate ; wings short and broad. Fore wing with vein 3 from 

 close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 

 7 anastomosing with 8. 



(l)tHELIOTHElA PEBSUMPTAN^A Wlk. XXviii. 459. 



Australia ; Tasmania. 

 (2) Heliothela OPHiDEEESANA Wlk. xxviii. Madagascar; India; 

 459. Ceylon ; Australia. 



Heliothela pusilla Butl. 111. Het. vii. p. 93, pi. 134. f. 15. 



(3)tHELiOTHELA ocHEEiPENNis Butl. Traus. Ent. Soc. 1886, 

 p. 429, pi. X. f. 9. Australia 



(4)tHELI0THBLA NIGEALBATA, D. Sp. 



<S . Black-brown ; fore wing with a pale mark beyond disco- 

 ceUulars ; hind wing with a large pure white quadrate spot beyond 

 the cell ; underside with the spots on both wings pure white. 



Hah. Chekiang, China. Exp. 14 mm. 



Type. (5) Heliothela atralis Hiibn. Pyr. f . 27. S. Europe ; W. Asia. 

 Pyralis undidalis Schr. Eaun. I3oic. 1792. 

 „ obfuscata Scop. Ent. Carn. 582. 



(6)tHELioTHELA ATRA Butl. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 404. N. Zealand. 



(7)tHELiOTHELA PE^GALLiENSis Frey, Lcp. Schw. p. 253. 



Switzerland. 

 Auctorum. 



Nyctareha paracentra Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1887, p. 245. 



W. Australia. 



Genus 156. Mimasaeta. 



Mimasarta Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1894, p. 164. 



Palpi porrect, extending about twice the length of head, clothed 

 with long hair hiding the 3rd joint ; maxillary palpi with tuft of 

 long hair at extremity ; frons rounded and hardly prominent ; 



Fig. 156. 



Mimasarta niveifasoialis, (S . f. 



antennte of male ciliated ; legs smoothly scaled, hind tibiae with 

 the spurs nearly equal. Fore wing short and broad ; vein 3 from 

 near angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 7 well separated from 8, 9. 

 Hind wing with the cell half the length of wing ; vein 3 from 



