D E S C R 1 P T IONS 
OF 
NEW GENERA AND SPECIES 
OF 
LEPIDOPTERA 
(P H A L iE N M) 
OF THE 
FAMILY NOOTUIDiF 
(SUBFAMILY NOCTFIN*). 
Genus METAPRIONOTA, nov. 
Type, M. sculpta, Felcl. ( Ophisma ) Reise Nov. pi. 117. f. 26 
(1874). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to vertex of head, broadly scaled at base, tapering 
to extremity, the 3rd long ; frons with small truncate 
conical corneous prominence with raised rim at extremity ; 
eyes large, round ; antenna; of male ciliated ; thorax clothed 
almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiae slightly 
fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with 
the apex rounded, the termen excised below vein 4 and very 
highly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 
6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 
the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen very 
highly crenulate and produced to points at the veins, deeply 
excised below vein 2 ; the cell about half the length of wing, 
vein 3 from before angle ; 5 fully developed from above angle ; 
6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 
base only. 
Genus METASARCA, nov. 
Type, M. euphanera. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to about middle of frons, moderately scaled in front 
and slightly fringed with hair behind towards extremity ; frons 
smooth with ridge of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae 
of male laminate and almost simple ; thorax clothed with 
scales and hair mixed, the pro- and metathorax with small 
crests ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with 
B 
