LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 547 



Male and female. Body moderately stout. Proboscis obsolete. 

 Palpi extremely short. Antennae short, slender, minutely serrated. 

 Abdomen not extending beyond the hind wings, densely lanuginous 

 at the tip in the female. Legs pilose, very short and slender ; hind 

 tibiae with two minute apical spurs. Wings moderately broad, 

 slightly hyaline, very thinly clothed. Fore wings elongate, subfal- 

 cate, rounded at the tips ; exterior border straight, rather oblique ; 

 discal areolet very small, very near the base of the wing ; three 

 inferior veins ; third extending from the hind side of the areolet, 

 very remote from the second ; four superior veins. Hind wings 

 with the exterior border slightly bent; interior angle prominent. 



Semuta pristina. 



Mas et foem. Cinereo-cervina, pilis longis erectis vestita ; antenna 

 testacece ; alee anlicce fasciis tribus cinereis obliquis indistinctis, 

 3a undulata. 



Male and female. Cinereous fawn-colour, clothed with long 

 erect hairs. Antennas testaceous. Legs testaceous. Fore wings 

 with three oblique indistinct cinereous bands ; third undulating. 

 Hind wings a little paler than the fore wings, with some white hairs 

 at the end of the interior border. Length of the body 5 — 6 lines; 

 of the wings 17 — 18 lines. 



a. Swan River. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



b, c. More ton Bay. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



Genus SABALIA. 



Mas. Corpus cylindricum, sat robustum.- Proboscis nulla. 

 Palpi decumbentes, brevissimi. Antennae late pectinatae. Abdomen 

 longiusculum, alas posticas superans ; fasciculus apicalis miuimus. 

 Pedes breviusculi, subpilosi ; tibiae posticas calcaribus duobus parvis 

 apicalibus. Alae aniicae latae, elongatae, apice rotundatae, margine 

 exteriore subconvexo perobliquo. 



Male. Body cylindrical, rather stout. Proboscis obsolete. 

 Palpi decumbent, very short. Antennae broadly pectinated. Ab- 

 domen rather long, extending beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft 

 extremely small. Legs rather short, slightly pilose ; hind tibiae with 

 two short apical spurs. Wings broad. Fore wings elongate, rounded 

 at the tips; exterior border slightly convex, extremely oblique; 

 third inferior vein about eight times further from the fourth than 

 from the second. 



