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Southern Asia, and tliat in the remote past a few genera reached 

 the Eastern Cordillera of this continent, when that consisted of a 

 chain of islands surrounded by the ocean, and the old Australia 

 lay many hundred miles to the west. Almost destroyed in its original 

 habitat after the appearance of the dominant family Pyraustidae, a 

 few genera have survived in these mountain-tops, or in the rain- 

 forests at their bases, one genus, Tineodes, having become adapted 

 to life on the coastal plains. I should expect that further represen- 

 tatives of the family will be found in the mountains of New Guinea. 



The family may be divided into two grcups; a more prim.itive, 

 in which 6 of the hindwings is widely separate from 7; and a less 

 primitive, in which triese veins are connate from the upper angle 

 of the cell. The latter group includes the exotic genus Simaethistis, 

 It happens that the latter group also exhibits some primitive features; 

 for instance, in Simaeth'stis and Palaeodes, all veins in the fore- 

 wings are separate; and in the new genus Anomina 7 of the hind- 

 wings does not anastomose with 12, a structure which is shared only 

 by the genus Tanycnema. 



1. Hindwings with 6 and 7 connate 2 



Hindwings with 6 remote 3 



2. Hindwings with 7 not anasto-mosing Anomlma 



Hindwings with 7 anastomO'Sing Palaeodes 



3. Hindwings v/ith 4 and 5 somewhat approximate at 



origin Tanycnema 



Hindwings with 4 and 5 v/idely separate 4 



4. Hindwings with a strong costal tuft Euthesaura 



Hindwings without costal tuft 5 



5. Labial palpi extremely long (8), maxillary palpi 



strc-ngly dilated Tineodes 



Labial palpi moderately long (4), maxillary palpi 



filiform Euthrausta 



Gen. Anomima, nov. 



Palpi long (about 4), porrect; terminal joint short, acute. 

 Maxillary palpi moderately long. Antennae in ^ serrate and shortly 

 ciliated. Thorax and abdomen moderately stout. Legs moderately 

 long; tibial spurs nearly equal. Forewings with 2 and 3 long-stalked 

 from angle, 4, 5 separate, 6 widely separate, 7 connate with 8, 9, 

 10, which are stalked, 8 arising shortly before 10, 11 from f. Hind- 

 wings with 2, 3, 4, 5 remote, equidistant, parallel, 2 arising from 

 before angle, 6 and 7 connate from upper angle, 7 approximated to 

 8 for a short distance, but not anastomc'sing. 



The solitary example on which this genus is based was captured 

 some thirty years ago, and is in bad condition, the head somewhat 

 mutilated, so that I am not able to give the characters fully, but 

 sufficiently so to indicate that it is a very distinct genus. The ab- 

 sence of any anastomosis of 7 of the hindwings and the generally 

 stout build are primitive characters, but the neuration of the fore- 

 wings is specialised, and the origin of 6 of hindwings is a later 



