54 Jeffevis Turner : 



arched, apex round-pointed, termen nearly straight, moderately- 

 oblique; white with well-defined blackish markings, and slight black- 

 ish irroration; a sub-basal fascia, expanded on dorsum, and contain- 

 ing a whitish dot; a line from i costa to ^ dorsum; an irregular 

 discal mark beyond this, representing orbicular and claviform; reni- 

 form strongly marked, X shaped; indications of a curved line from 

 f costa to § dorsum; rather large angular spots on costa before 

 apex, on termen above middle, and on dorsum before tornus; an in- 

 terrupted submaginal line; cilia white, bases obscurely barred with 

 blackish. Hindwings with termen sinuate; whitish-grey; cilia 

 whitish. 



T., Cradle Mountain, in January; one specimen received from 

 Dr. R. J. Tillyard. A second ? example from Mt. Macedon, Victoria 

 (Coll. Lyell), appears to be the same species. 



SCOPARIA TRISTICTA, n. Sp. 



(^21 mm. Head grey. Palpi 2^; grey. Antennae grey; ciliations 

 in ^ minute. Thorax grey. Abdomen grey-whitish. Legs whitish • 

 anterior and middle tibiae and tarsi annulated with dark-fuscous. 

 Forewings elongate-triangular, cosfa gently arched, apex rounded- 

 rectangular, termen slightly bowed, scarcely oblique; grey with 

 slight dark-fuscous irroration; markings dark-fuscous; a small suf- 

 fused spot on base of costa; a moderately broad line, slightly dentate 

 in middle, from \ costa to ^ dorsum, followed by some dark- 

 fuscous suffusion; orbicular and claviform distinct, edged with dark- 

 fuscous, pale in centre, well separated from each other, and first 

 line; reniform broadly oval, indented posteriorly, outline and centre 

 dark-fuscous, connected with a suffused spot on mid costa; second line 

 from 4 costa to f dorsum, indented beneath costa, outwardly 

 bowed in middle, thence inwardly oblique and wavy, edged posteriorly 

 by a pale line; suffused spots in terminal area, first subapical, second 

 on mid-termen, third supratornal; a subterminal dot above second 

 spot; cilia whitish with a subapical series of fuscous dots. Hind- 

 wings with termen sinuate; whitish; cilia whitish. 



N.S.W., Ebor (4000 ft.), in January; one specimen. 



Fam. TINEODIDAE. 



A small family of the group Pyralites characterised by the wide 

 separation of vein 5 of the hindwings from 4; only in the new genus 

 Tanycnema are these two veins somewhat approximate, but separate 

 at origin. From it have arisen probably the two small families 

 Oxychiroticlae and Coenolohidae, each consisting of a single genus. 

 More remotely related are the Pterophoridae, which may be distin- 

 guished from all genera of these three families, except Tanycnema, 

 by the absence of maxillary palpi. As at present known the family 

 consists of a few small Australian genera and the Indian genus 

 Simaethistis (which, however, I have not seen). The family, as 

 Meyrick has pointed out, is a primitive one, which was probably 

 formerly much more largely developed. I imagine that it arose in 



