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1. Genus Motasingha, nov. (Plate III. fig. 23.) 



Type, dirphia, Hew. 



Antennae : club very robust, bent at right angles with shaft, tip 

 blunt. Palpi as in Telesto. Fore wing: inner margin slightly 

 longer than outer margin ; cell less than two-thirds the length of 

 costa ; vein 12 reaching costa shortly before the end of cell ; upper 

 discocellnlar short but distinct, outwardly oblique, middle and lower 

 discocellulars inwardly oblique, the former very faint, the latter 

 well developed ; vein .5 slightly nearer to 6 than to 4 ; vein 3 well 

 before the end of cell, about twice as far from 2 as from 4 ; vein 2 

 slightly nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. Hind wing 

 shghtly elongated, outer margin even ; vein 7 far before the end of 

 cell ; discocellulars and vein 5 very faint ; veins 1, 2, 3, and 4 all 

 close together, vein 3 nearer to 4 than to 2 ; lower margin of cell 

 angled slightly at vein 2 and more abruptly at vein 3. Hind tibire 

 with two pair of spurs. The female does not diflfer from the male 

 in neuration. 



Male with a linear discal stigma lying almost at right angles to the 

 inner margin, extending from just beyond the lower angle of cell 

 and just below vein 1. 



j *dir2)hia, Hew. 



\ trimaculata, Tepper. c? • 



I qitaclrimnciilafa, Tepper. J • 



Confined to Australia. 



2. Genus Tklesto. (Plates II. fig. 7 ; III. fig. 22.) 

 Telesto, Boisd. A^oy. Astrol. 164 (1832). Ty^te, perronii, Latr. 

 Antennte : club rather robust, arcuate, with no terminal crook, 

 tip acuminate. Palpi porrect ; third joint short, obtusely conical. 

 Fore ^^^ug rather pointed at apex ; outer margin nearly straight : 

 inner margin slightly longer than outer margin ; cell less than two- 

 thirds the length of costa ; discocellulars inwardly oblique, subequal ; 

 vein .5 almost equidistant from 4 and 6, slightly nearer to 6 ; vein 

 3 well before end of cell, slightly further from 2 than from 4 ; vein 2 

 almost equidistant from end of cell and base of wing. Hind wing 

 .shghtly elongated, outer margin even ; vein 7 equidistant from (i 

 and 8 ; discocellulars faint ; veins 2, 3, and 4 all close together ; 

 vein 3 nearer to 4 than to 2 ; lower margin of cell bent abruptly 

 upwards at vein 3. Hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. 



Male with an oblique linear streak on fore wing, extending from just 

 beyond the lower cell almost to the inner margin. The female 

 does not differ perceptibly from the male in neuration. 



(perronii, Latr. 

 \ kocliii, Feld. 

 ydoclea, Hew. 



Confined to Australia. 



