258 AKOTIAD^. 



Genus SYMMETRODES. 



Type. 



Symmetrodes, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 703 (1886). sciocosma. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, porrect. ; antennae of female almost 

 simple. Fore wing with vein 2 from middle of cell ; 3, 4, 5 from cell ; (5 from 

 cell; 7,8,9 stnlked, 7 from beyond 9; 10 free; 11 anastomosing with 12. 

 Hind wing with reins 2, 3, 4, 5 from cell, 5 from well above angle ; 6, 7 stalked; 

 8 from middle of cell. 



*541. Symmetrodes sciocosma. (Plate XXV. fig. 15.) 



Symmetrodes 7iUens, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 703 (1886), 



nee Wlk. 

 Symmetrodes sciocosma, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) ii. p. 920 (1888); 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 334. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous yellow ; fore and 

 mid legs fuscous. Fore wing whitish ochreous, base rather darker 

 ochreous ; traces of a curved autemedial line sometimes present, 

 and sometimes of a diffused dentate postmedial line, or the terminal 

 half of wing slightly suffused with grey. Hind wing whitish 

 ochreous, sometimes slightly suffused with grey except towards 

 base. 



Hab. (Queensland. E^vj). 27-28 millim. Figured from drawing 

 in Coll. Meyrick. 



Genus STICTANE, nov. 



Type, S.fractilinea. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi upturned, slender, and reaching vertex of 

 head ; antennee of male serrate and fasciculate ; tibiae with the spurs moderate. 

 Fore wing short and rather broad, the costa arched ; vein 2 from middle of 

 cell, curved at base ; 3 from long before angle ; 5 from well above angle ; 6 from 

 below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked, 7 from beyond 9 ; 10, 11 free. Hind wing 

 with vein 2 from middle of cell ; 3 from well before angle ; 5 from well above 

 angle ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. 



A. Fore wing with the medial line very oblique ohliquilinea. 



B. Fore wing with the medial line nearly straight and erect, rectilinea. 

 0. Fore wing with the medial line excurved from below costa 



to submedian fold fractilinea. 



542. Stictane ohliquilinea, n. sp. (Plate XXV. fig. 5.) 



5 . White ; palpi, lower part of frons, and antennae brownish ; 

 tarsi tinged with ochreous. Fore wing with subbasal black point 

 on median nervure and antemedial points on subcostal nervure and 

 vein 1 ; a nearly straight very oblique medial band expanding from 

 below the cell to inner margin ; two discoidal points ; diffused 

 fuscous i)atches on costa before apex and on middle of termen ; 

 a terminal dark line. Hind wing pale fuscous. 



Hah. Ceylon, Hambantota {Pole), 1 $ type. Exp. 14 millim. 



543. Stictane rectilinea. 



IHtane rectilinea, Suell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxii. p. 91, pi. 10. f. 7 (1879) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 364. 



