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Show 1899.] OF THE SUBFAMILY PYRAUSTINJE. 281 moderate; wings short and broad. Fore wing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. (l)fHELIOTHELA PERSUMPTANA Wlk. XXVni. 459. Australia; Tasmania. (2) HELIOTHELA OPHIDERESANA Wlk. xxviii. Madagascar; India; 459. Ceylon ; Australia. Heliothela pusilla Butl. 111. Het. vii. p. 93, pl. 134. f. 15. (3)fHELioTHELA OCHREIPENNIS Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 429, pl. x. f. 9. Australia (4)fHELIOTHELA NIGRALBATA, n. sp. 3. Black-brown; fore wing with a pale mark beyond discocellulars ; hind wing with a large pure white quadrate spot beyond the cell; underside with the spots on both wings pure white. Hab. Chekiang, China. Exp. 14 mm. . (5) HELIOTHELA ATRALIS Hiibn. Pyr. f. 27. S. Europe ; W. Asia. Pyralis undulalis Schr. Faun. Boic. 1792. „ obfuscata Scop. Ent. Carn. 582. (6)f HELIOTHELA ATRA Butl. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 404. N. Zealand. (7)tHELIOTHELA PR^GALLIENSIS Frey, Lep. SchAv. p. 253. Switzerland. Auctorum. Nyctarcha paracentra Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1887, p. 245. W . Australia. Genus 156. MIMASARTA. Mimasarta Bag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1894, p. 164. Palpi porrect, extending about tAvice the length of head, clothed with long hair hiding the 3rd joint; maxillary palpi with tuft of long hair at extremity ; frons rounded and hardly prominent; Fig. 156. Mimasarta niveifascialis, 3- f-antennae of male ciliated ; legs smoothly scaled, hind tibiae with the spurs nearly equal. Fore wing short and broad ; vein 3 from near angle of cell; 5 from above angle; 7 AA'ell separated from 8, 9. Hind wing Avith the cell half the length of wing; vein 3 from |