1898.] 



OP THE STJBFAMILY PXEAUSTIN^E. 



611 



outline ; the margin purplish silver. Hind wing suffused with 

 fuscous ; a broad purplish silver marginal band, with darker mark 

 towards anal angle. 



Hah. Amboina. Exp. 20 mm. Types in Coll. Rothschild and 

 B.M. 



Genus 9. Voliba. 



Galrisa Wlk. xxxiv. 1266 (1865), preocc. 



Voliha Wlk. xxxv. 1983 (1866). 



Stereoscopa Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, p. 4-18. 



Palpi upturned, the 2ud joint not reaching vertex o£ head and 

 fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd long aud acuminate ; 

 maxillary palpi short and filiform ; frons rounded; antennas annu- 

 late, the basal joint dilated. Fore wing long and narrow ; veins 

 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9, 

 to which 10 is approximated. Hind wing with the median nervure 

 pectinated above ; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Fig. 9. 



Voliba scoparialis, (J . 

 Type. fYoLiBA scopaeiaiis Wlk. xxxiv. 1266. 



Australia. 



Genus 10. Lipocosma. 



Lipocosma Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 448. 



Palpi upturned, the 1st and 2nd joints with tufts of hair in 

 front, the 2nd hardly reaching vertex of head, the 3rd well deve- 

 loped and acuminate ; maxillary palpi small and nearly filiform ; 



Fig. 10. 



Lipocosma sicalis, (5 . i. 



frons rounded ; antennae laminate ; tibiae with the spurs long and 

 nearly equal. Fore wing \^ith tuft of scales on inner margin near 



