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Genus CALAMIDIA. 



Type. 

 Calamidia, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 358 hirfa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, of male with the 2nd joint long 

 and slender, the 3rd joint longer than the 2nd, subclavate and bent forward, of 

 female not reaching vertex of head ; antennae of female with bristles and cilia ; 

 tibi« with the spurs moderate ; abdomen clothed with rough hair. Fore wing- 

 long and narrow, the costa arched, the apes rounded ; vein 2 from middle of 

 cell, curved at base ; 3 from well before angle ; 5 absent ; 6 from below or from 

 angle or shortly stalked with 7 ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole ; 7 from areole ; 1 1 free, curved. Hind wing with vein 2 from middle 

 of cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 absent ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of 

 ceU. 



374. Calamidia hirta. 



Lithosia hirta, Wlk. ii. 510, $ (1854); Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) 



i. p. 694 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 339. 

 Calcnnidia salpimtis, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W, (2) i. p. 694, cJ (1886) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 339. 



(5 . Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; abdomen ochreous 

 yellow ; legs whitish ochreous ; fore femora fuscous above. Fore 

 wing whitish ochreous suffused with pale fuscous, except an elongate 



Fig. QS.^ Calamidia hirta, $. \. 



elliptical patch below the cell from base to middle, the suffusion 

 below and beyond it darker ; cilia whitish ochreous tinged with 

 fuscous. Hind wing ochreous yellow. 



5 . Head and thorax white tinged with fuscous ; abdomen pale 

 orange-yellow. Fore wing yellowish white, the veins slightly 

 tinged with brown, the inner area suffused with pale brown to 

 beyond middle, where it is joined by a very ill-defined diffused pale 

 brown fascia from middle of termen. Hind wing pale orange- 

 yellow. 



Hob. jS". S. Wales, Sydney {Darnel, MatJieiv), 4 $ , type Vtc- 

 lOEiA. Kvj). 44-50 miUim. 



Genus MONOTAXIS, nov. 



Type, M. trimaculata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porreet, not reaching beyond the frons ; 

 antennae of female ciliated ; tibiae with the spurs moderate. Fore wing long 

 and narrow ; vein 2 from middle of cell, curved at base ; 3 from well before 

 angle ; 5 absent ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 free. 

 Hind wing with vein 2 from middle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 absent ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



