120 



6. Motasingha, Watson. 

 P.Z.S., p. 73, 1893. 



Club of antennae robust, bent, apiculus blunt. Palpi 

 obliquely ascending, subporrect terminal joint short, sub- 

 conical. Posterior tibiae with all spurs. Forewings in male 

 with stigma; 5 parallel to 4 and 6, slightly nearer 6 at base. 

 Hindwings, 5 obsolete. 



Type dirphia, Hew. 



This genus differs from Hesperilla by the shape of club 

 of antennae and from Mesodina by the presence of discal 

 stigma of o" and presence of all spurs on posterior tibiae. 



11. M. dirphia, Hew. 



Desc. Hesp., n. 38, 1868; ex. Butt., v., figs. 1-3, 1874; M. 

 and L., T.R.S., p. 60. H. trimaculata, Tepp., I.e., 1881, p. 32, 

 pi. ii., fig. 1. H. quadrimaculata, ib., I.e., pi. ii., fig. 2. Mota- 

 singha dirphia, Watson, P.Z.S., 1893, p. 73. 



Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, and New 

 South Wales. Thirty-three specimens; November to March. 

 I think the former locality quoted, i.e., Cape York, is 

 erroneous; at all events, it requires verification. The 

 antennae of this species has the apiculus very obtuse. 



Type dirphia, in Coll. Hewitson (British Museum) ; types 

 trimaculata and quadrimaculata, in Coll. Adelaide Museum. 



7. Hesperilla, Hew. 



Desc. Hesp., p. 37, 1868. Telesto (nom praiocc), Bdv., Voy., 

 "Astrolabe," Lep., p. 164, 1832; Plotz, Stett, Ent., Zeit, 1884, p. 

 -376; M. and L., T.R.S., p. 48. Oxytoxia, Mab,, Wyst. Gen. Ins. 



Club of antennae elongate, more or less bent, apiculus 

 acute, moderate. Palpi obliquely ascending or subporrect, 

 terminal joint short, rarely moderately long, subcorneal. 

 Posterior tibiae with all spurs. Forewings in male with 

 stigma; 5 parallel to 4 and 6, slightly nearer 6 at base. 

 Hindwings, with 5 obsolete. 



Type ornata, Leach; Hesperilla, Hew.; type perroni, 

 Latr. ; Telesto, Bdv. ; type Doubledayi, Fold. ; Oxytoxia, 

 Mab. 



We formerly placed all the following species in Telesto, 

 Bdv., but as this name has been used in Tubularina, in 1812, 

 and again in Crustacea, in 1814, I am adopting Hewitson's 

 name in preference to Boisduval's. With the exception of 

 perornata, Kirby, and munionga, Oil., the genus is imme- 

 diately separated from Mesodina and Trapezites by the absence 

 of stigma in male. I have merged Oxytoxia, Mab., into Hes- 

 perilla, as to all intents and purposes it is structurally iden- 

 tical with that genus. A somewhat discordant character in 



