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* Leptomeris rubraria, Dbkl.

17 specimens. Australia, New Zealand.

* Anosia bolina, L.

1 ♂ specimen. India, Malay Islands, Australia, Pacific islands, New Zealand.

* Vanessa itea, F.

3 specimens. Australia, Norfolk Island, New Zealand.

* Melanitis leda, L.

1 specimen. Africa, southern Asia, Australia, Pacific islands.

Homoeosoma anaspila, Meyr.

8 specimens. New Zealand.

Eranistis, n. g.

Face rather oblique; ocelli present; tongue developed. Antennae ¾. Labial palpi moderate, ascending, second joint dilated with rough, projecting scales, tufted towards apex beneath, terminal joint very short, loosely scaled. Maxillary palpi moderate, porrected, loosely scaled. Forewings with 3 almost from angle, 4 and 5 stalked, 7 out of 8 near base, 9 and 10 out of 8 beyond 7, 11 almost connate with 8. Hindwings 1; frenulum in ♀ simple; 4 and 5 stalked, 7 out of 6 near origin, anastomosing with 8 to middle.

This curious genus differs from all others in the Pyraustidæ by the origin of vein 7 of the forewings from 8; it does, notwithstanding, belong here, and not to the Pyralididæ, and is an instance of the independent and exceptional acquisition of a character which is normally characteristic of another family. It is undoubtedly allied to the group of Nymphula and Perisyntrocha; the simple frenulum of ♀ is an interesting and unusual character, but found in some species of that group.

Eranistis pandora, n. sp.

♀. 22 mm. Head and thorax light brownish-ochreous. Labial palpi light brownish-ochreous sprinkled with dark fuscous, white towards base beneath, tip white. Maxillary palpi pale ochreous banded with blackish. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa moderately arched towards apex, apex obtuse, termen obliquely bowed; brownish-ochreous, thinly sprinkled with dark fuscous; costa suffused with dark-fuscous irroration towards base; lines represented by very undefined thick shades of dark-fuscous irroration, first about ¼, shghtly curved, second about ¾, nearly parallel to termen, space beyond this more irrorated with dark fuscous. Hindwings ochreous-white. Undersurface of forewings and hindwings suffusedly whitish, with a bent dark-grey post-median line becoming obsolete dorsally.

1 specimen; another taken. The example described is in indifferent condition, but is so distinct as to be easy of recognition.