NOCTUIDJi. 
and postmedial slightly curved dark lines ; a submarginal straight ochreous line slightly bent 
below the costa. Hind wing fuscous white^ Avith a pale postmedial line bent outwards at 
first median nervule. 
MECISTOPTERA, g. n. 
Antennae with long ciliations in the male, minute in the female. Palpi upturned, the 
second joint long and clothed Avith scales, the third joint long and naked. Abdomen elongate 
in the male. Fore wing elongate, the apex acute, the outer margin excurved at the 
median nervulcs ; costal nervure straight ; first subcostal given oflf at half the length of the 
cell ; the second giving off the third, which anastomoses strongly with the fourth to near the 
apex ; the fifth from the end of the accessory cell ; the upper radial from the angle of the 
cellj the lower radial and third median from the lower angle; the second and first medians 
from before the angle ; submedian nearly straight. Hind wing rather square ; the costal 
nervure anastomosing with the subcostal to beyond the middle of the cell ; the two subcostals 
from the upper angle; the radial from just above the lower angle; two medians from the 
angle ; the first median from before it ; submedian and internal nervures. 
Mecistoptera griseifusa. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 14.) 
Expanse 1 inch. 
Mule. Fore wing olive-brown from the base to the middle ; an indistinct medial pale line 
angled outwards at the lower angle of the cell, and with a blackish patch on it from the cell 
to the inner margin; the outer area slightly sutiused with purplish grey, and with traces of 
curved postmedial and submarginal pale lines. Hind wing uniform fuscous. 
Female. Without the dark patch on the medial line of the fore wing, and with the grey 
suffusion of the outer area much more prominent. 
GYROGNATHA, g. n. 
Male. Antennai ciliated. Palpi recurved, with the second joint thickened and heavily 
scaled ; the third joint invisible. Fore wing with a costal nervure ; the first subcostal from 
half the length of cell ; the second anastomosing with the fifth to form a small accessory 
cell ; the fourth given off towards the apex ; the upper radial from just below the upper 
angle of cell ; the lower radial and third median from the lower angle ; the second and first 
medians from before the end ; a submedian nervure. Hind wing with the costal anastomos- 
ing shortly with the subcostal ; the two subcostals from end of cell ; the radial from below 
the middle; two medians from the lower angle; the first median from before the end; 
submedian and internal nervures. 
Gyrognatha atriceps. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 10.) 
Expanse f-i inch. 
Male, Pale vinous brown. Fore wing with antemedial, medial, postmedial, and sub- 
