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above the tornus. Cilia pale golden-ochreous, slightly mixed with brownish 
towards the apex, becoming paler towards the tornus. Hind wing glossy 
pale greyish-ochreous, cilia pale ochreous. 
Tegumen conical. Uncus pointed. Gnathos very large, porrect, arms 
broad at the base, hook densely denticulate before the apex which is acute. 
Transtilla moderate, dilated at the extremities. Valva subovate, disc 
concave, cucullus rounded, sacculus over 1, ending in a short hook. 
Vinculum short, rounded. Aedoeagus stout. Cornutus, a large spike. (Slide 
no. 1022 D, type.) 
Letterbox Camp, 3600 m, September 8, 1938. One specimen. 
Machaeritis Meyrick, 1883 
Machaeritis Meyrick, 1883, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, vol. 7, p. 422. Ibidem, 
vol. 10, p. 766. 1886. Gener. Ins., fasc. 180, p. 87, 1922. Fletcher, Mem. Agric. 
Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 131, 1922. Oaede, Lepid. Catal., part 88, p. 147, 1938. 
Machaeritis, Turner, 1940, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, vol. 65, p. 425. 
Machaeritis epidela spec. nov. (fig. 709) 
ImdrjXoi = distinct 
$ 14 mm. Head, antenna, thorax, and abdomen, pale brownish-ochreous. 
Palpus yellowish-ochreous mixed with fuscous. Legs light ochreous, 
anterior leg infuscated, median slightly irrorated with fuscous, with the 
knee and the tarsus fuscous-ringed, posterior tibia with smoothly appressed 
long hairs, spurs slightly infuscated. Fore w T ing subovate, pointed, broadest 
before the middle, costa moderately curved towards extremities, apex 
pointed, termen rounded, oblique. Deep ochreous, markings formed by a 
dark purplish-brown irroration. A suffused narrow streak along the base 
of the costa ; scanty irroration over the costal fourth of the wing ; a wedge- 
shaped suffused transverse patch across the closing vein to the end of the 
dorsum, acute above, posterior edge rather well-defined, slightly out- 
wardly oblique, base extended posteriorly, and connected with a large 
terminal patch dilated above, just reaching costa and becoming paler in 
the apex. Cilia orange-ochreous, in the tornus suffused with lilac-fuscous 
except the base. Hind wing and cilia pale orange-ochreous, thinly scaled in 
the cell and towards the base. 
Tegumen moderately erect, shoulders thickened. Uncus very small 
slender, porrect, pointed, below this with a ventral, denticulate area. 
Gnathos absent. Transtilla, a slender rod. Valva strongly sclerotized, 
costa with a long, strong, curved projection posteriorly, a bristled pad in 
the disc at its base; cucullus small, triangular, pointed; sacculus ill- 
defined. Vinculum rounded. Aedoeagus stout, robust, with a split below 
its top. Cornutus, a long curved spike, with an acute triangular process 
at its base. (Slide no. 1023 D, type.) 
Rattan Camp, 1200 m, February 5, 1939. One specimen. 
