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SIR G. F. HAMPSON — EEVISION OF MOTHS [NoV. 15, 



nearly equal. Fore wing with vein 3 from near angle oE cell ; 4, 5 

 from angle ; 7 straight, and well separated from 8, 9 ; 10, 11 

 stalked, and closely approximated to 8, 9. Hind wing with the 

 median nervure strongly pectinated ; vein 3 from near angle of 

 cell ; 4, 5 approximated for a short distance ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



'I'ype- PsEPHis MYRMiDONALis Gruen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 257, pi. 7. f . 8. Brazil. 

 Scyhalista trifunalis Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 455, pi. 18. 

 f. 16. 



Genus 4. Gokodiscus. 



Oonodiscus Warr. A. M. N. H. 1891, i. p. 430. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair in front and 

 reaching above vertex of head, the 3rd well developed and acumi- 

 nate ; maxillary palpi triangularly dilated with scales ; frons 

 rounded ; antennfe somewhat laminate ; tibiae with the outer spurs 

 two-thirds length of inner ; abdomen long. Fore wing with vein 

 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 well separated at origin ; 7 

 curved but not approximated to 8, 9, from which 10 is well sepa- 

 rated. Hind wing with the median nervure pectinated above ; vein 

 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 shortly stalked, 

 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Fig. 4. 



Gonodiscus amplalis, cJ . t- 



Type. (l)tGoNODisciis amplalis Warr. A. M. N. H. 1891, i. p. 430. 



Chili 

 (2)tGoN'ODiscirs austealiensis, n. sp. (Plate XLIX. fig. 1.) 



Straw-yellow ; thorax tinged with orange. Fore wing with a 

 brown fascia on costa from base to the curved brown antemedial 

 line, ^^'hich is thick ; the postmedial thick brown line excurved at 

 middle, the terminal area from just beyond it suffused with brown ; 

 a terminal series of brown points on yellow marks. Hind wing 

 slightly suffused with fuscous and with traces of a curved sub- 

 terrainal line. 



The 3rd joint of palpus is shorter and more obtuse than in 

 amplalis. 



Hah. W. Australia, Sherlock E.. (^Clement) ; Queensland, Coomoo 

 {Barnard). Exp. 20 mm. 



