1899.] . OF THE SUBFAMILY PYRATJSTIN^. 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 PERSUMPTANA Wlk. SXviii. 459. 



Australia ; Tasmania. 

 (2) Heltothela ophideeesana Wlk. xxviii. Madagascar ; India ; 

 459. Ceylon ; Australia. 



HeliotMa imsilla Butl. 111. Het. vii. p. 93, pi. 134. f. 15. 



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

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



(4)tHELI0THELA ZSTIGEALBATA, n. Sp. 



d" . Black-brown ; fore wing with a pale mark beyond disco- 

 cellulars ; 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 atealis Hiibn. Pyr. f . 27. S. Europe ; W. Asia. 

 Pyralis undulalis Schr. Faun. Boic. 1792. 

 „ ohfuscata Scop. Ent. Carn. 582. 



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



(7)tHELiOTHELA PR^GALLiENSis Frey, Lep. Schw. p. 253. 



Switzerland. 

 AuctoruTii. 



Nyctarclia para centra 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 niveifascialis, c?. f. 



antennae 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 



