PLUTO RE CT IS ; OROPHORA. By M. Gaede. 
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23. Genus: Plutorectis Meyr. & Low. 
Antenna of strongly pectinated to the tip, with a pencil at the base. Neuration of forewing as in 
Clania, no branch extending to the inner margin. Hindwing without vein 5, 8 connected with the cell by a 
bar. Type: boisduvalii Ww. • 
P. boisduvalii Ww. (90 i). Body orange-brown. Forewing brown, broadly blackish-brown at the base, boisduvalii. 
Hindwing blackish-brown, orange-brown at the inner margin. Larval sac 40 mm long, 10 mm thick, longitu¬ 
dinally spun with short twigs. $ 30 mm. Sydney. 
P. grisea Heyl. (90 i). Body greyish-yellow. Wings greyish-brown. Somewhat lighter at the base of grisea. 
forewing and at the inner margin of hindwing (maybe rubbed 1). 20 mm. Adelaide. — mjoebergi Aur. is pro¬ 
bably identical. The hair-pencil at the base of the antenna, which is white in grisea according to Meyrick, 
is at least now as greyish-yellow in the type as the whole body, and the colour of the wings is (now) neither 
yellowish-grey, as stated by Heylaerts, but greyish-brown as in mjoebergi. 
P. lurida Heyl. (90 i). Body and wings dingy yellow. Without the inserted cell. 28 mm. Cape York, lurida. 
P. tnelanodes Meyr. Body and legs orange-brown. Forewing moderately oblong, showing through melanodes. 
whitisch, finely dusted with black, more densely at the base, veins blackish, fringe brownish ochreous. Hind¬ 
wing strongly bent at the costal margin, blackish-brown, somewhat diaphanous. Blackish at the inner margin, 
yellowish at the base, fringe brownish ochreous. £ 30 mm. Cape York. 
P. xanthochrysa Meyr. Body and legs bright yellowish-brown. Forewing slightly pressed in at the xantho- 
costal margin, dark brown, somewhat diaphanous. Hindwing rounded, fringe dark brown in both wings. Re- chrysa. 
cognizable by the black antennae. 32 mm. West Australia. 
P. zophopepla Meyr. Body and antennae orange brown. Width of antennae 8 mm. Forewing modera- sophopepla. 
tely oblong, costal margin not concave; margin oblique, scarcely rounded. Dull white, semidiaphanous, the 
interior two thirds dusted with dark brown, blackish at the base. Hindwing rounded, corresponding to fore¬ 
wing, both wings with brownish-ochreous fringes. $ 30 mm. Queensland. Sac 25—35 mm long, 10 mm thick, 
more or less white, spun with leaves and small twigs of Eucalyptus. 
P. hyaloscopa Meyr. Body, legs and antennae blackish, largest width of antennae 8 mm. Fore wing hyaloscopa. 
more or less diaphanous. Basal third and costal margin with black scales, fringe dark brown. Hindwing with 
a slightly projecting apex, margin somewhat undulate. Marking as on forewing, only the costal margin broader 
black, and black hair also at the inner margin. £ 30 mm. North-West Victoria. 
P. gymnophasa Low. Body, antennae and legs blackish-brown. Antennae 8 mm broad. Forewing gymno- 
oblong, blackish-brown, darker at the margins. Hindwing rounded, otherwise like forewing. The antennae of pliasa. 
the very similar grisea are much shorter pectinated in the apical third, which is not the case in gymnophasa. 
(J 20 mm. N.-S. Wales, Victoria. 
24. Genus: Oropliora Her. 
Antennae of $ shortly bipectinated. Wings broad and rounded. Veins 4 -f- 5 of forewing on a short 
stalk, 7 -j- 8 -j- 9 also stalked. Veins 4 + 5 of hindwing also stalked, vein 8 connected with the cell by a bar 
behind the middle, before the bar a spur extends to the costal margin. 
E. unicolor Btlr. (= butleri Sn.) (90 h). Uniformly grey. Forewing somewhat more brownish, black unicolor. 
at the costal margin. Hinclwing semidiaphanous. The sac is longitudinally spun with short pieces of grass- 
stalks. $ 25 mm. New Zealand. 
E. toumatou Fer. Both wings diaphanous, covered with few dark brown hair-like scales. Body very toumatou. 
hairy. The sac is covered with short pieces of grass in a tile-shaped way. 26 mm. In Southern New Zealand. 
