Vol. LVII, No. 6. 
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^REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN PSYCH I DAE 
(LEPIDOPTERA). 
By A. Jefferis Turner, M.D., F.R.E.S. 
(. Received 29 th October, 1945; accepted for publication, 2 6th November, 
1945; issued separately, 20 th January, 1947.) 
This small family is in some respects the most specialised of the 
Lepidoptera ; but it also presents many primitive characters. The larvae 
dwell in silken cases often with twigs or leaves attached. In these they 
pupate. The adult female is without wings, feet, and mouth-parts, and 
never leaves its case, in which the eggs are deposited. In the male the 
head is rough-haired, the tongue is absent, the palpi very short and hairy, 
the wings usually thin-scaled and often mostly hyaline. The neuration 
is primitive, with a median vein (usually stalked) in the cell, and with 
second cubital and two anal veins in both wings ; but there may be added 
various anastomoses, and also veinlets or pseudoneuria may he developed. 
The second cubital usually runs into the combined anal veins in the fore- 
wings, but may be undeveloped except near its base. The second median 
in the forewings arises below the middle of the cell. The first radial 
may be present in the hindwings. The anterior tibiae often have a long 
ventral spine. 
Key to Genera. 
1. Anterior tarsi with basal joint not elongate 
2 
Anterior tarsi with basal joint one -half 
5 
2. Forewings with 9 absent 
3 
Forewings with 9 present 
4 
3. Hindwings with 4 and 5 stalked or coincident 
Elinostola 
Hindwings with 5 separate 
Hyaloptila 
4. Hindwings with 5 absent 
Hyalarcta 
Hindwings with 5 present 
Paracharactis 
5. Hindwings with 4 and 5 anastomosing 
Clania 
Hindwings with 4 and 5 not anastomosing 
6 
6. Antennae simple towards apex 
Oeceticus 
Antennae pectinate to apex 
7 
7. Hindwings with 5 absent 
Phasmyalea 
Hindwings with 5 present 
8 
8. Both wings with median forked 
Bathromelas 
Both wings with median not forked 
Plutorectis 
1. Gen. ELINOSTOLA Meyr. & Low. 
Tr. R.S.S.A. 1907, p. 193. 
Antennae bipectinate to apex. Forewings with Cu 2 running into 
combined anal vein, 4 and 5 stalked, 7 and 8 stalked, 9 absent ; median 
forked in cell. Hindwings with 4 and 5 stalked or coincident, 6 absent ; 
median in cell not forked. Type : E. hypomela . 
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