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14. Fore wing with veins 3 and 4 stalked from angle, 5 separate; hind wing with 
cubital pecten (Trepsitypa Meyrick) 
Fore wing with veins 4 and 5 connate, hind wing without cubital pecten . 
(Picrorrhyncha Meykick) 
15. Median segment of palpus in male with long, curled hairs above, in female 
cylindrical, with a scale-projection above near base. (Ooscinoptycha Meyrick 
P alpus not thus 16 
16. Hind wing with cell extremely short: under L / i , veins very long, apparently 
diverging from base of wing Spartoneura gen. nov. 
Hind wing with cell normal 17 
17. Palpus in male subascending or ascending, in female subascending or porrect 18 
Palpus in male and female porrect 22 
18. Palpus with terminal segment moderate or long 19 
Palpus with terminal segment very short 20 
19. Palpus with tenninal segment longer than median, cylindrical; hind wing with 
veins 3 and 4 connate . ( Delarchis Meyrick) 
Palpus with terminal segment moderate, slender, obtuse (Bondia Newman) 
20. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 connate (Epicopistis Turner) 
Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 stalked 21 
21. Hind wing in male without, in female with cubital pecten 
Heterogymna Meyrick 
Hind wing in female without cubital pecten (male unknown) 
Actenoptila gen. nov. 
22. Hind wing in male with vein 3 absent, in female with veins 3 and 4 widely 
remote Anomoeosis gen. nov. 
Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 in both sexes stalked 23 
23. Hind wing with cubital pecten Garposina Herrich-Scheffer 
Hind wing without cubital pecten (Paramorpha Meyrick) 
Meridarchis Zeller, 1867 
Meridarchis Zeller, 1867, Stett. Ent. Zeit., vol. 28, p. 407; genotype: 
M. trapeziella Zeller, 1867. 
Autogriphus Walsingham, 1897, Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., vol. 1897, p. 59; 
genotype: A. lutea Walsingham, 1897. 
Pexinolci Hampson, 1900, Cat. Lep. Phal., vol. 2, p. 79; genotype: P. longirostris 
Hampson, 1900. 
Propedesis Walsingham, 1900, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 6, p. 122; 
genotype: P. excisa Walsingham, 1900. 
Tribonica Meyrick, 1905, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. 16, p. 589; 
genotype: T. eremitis Meyrick, 1905. 
The characteristic feature of the veins 8 and 9 in the fore wing being 
stalked makes this extensive genus easily recognisable; the veins 3 and 4 
may be stalked or separate. The hind wing shows also variable venation, 
veins 3 and 4 being stalked, closely approximated or remote; vein 5 is 
invariably absent. An interesting feature is that vein 6 in the hind wing 
may be present and fully developed, as in the genotype, M. trapeziella 
Zeller, from India and Java, in M. (— Autogriphus) lutea Walsingham, 
from South Africa, in M. (= Propedesis) excisa Walsingham, from Japan, 
and in several of the following Papuan species; in other species vein 6 is 
either weak, but traceable along three-fourths of its length, reduced to a 
