768 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



109. Hyps, dama, F. 



(Noctua dama, F., Don., Boisd. • ? Phalaena silvandra, Or. 

 369 D.) 



£ £. 57-64 mm. Head and thorax deep orange ; a black dot 

 on each side of collar, and a small black anterior spot on each 

 patagium. Palpi blackish, lower longitudinal half of basal and 

 second joints ochreous-yellow. Antennae blackish, fascicles 1. 

 Abdomen orange, with dorsal series of transverse black spots, and 

 two sometimes confluent series of small spots on each side beneath. 

 Legs fuscous, beneath ochreous-whitish. Forewings rather elongate- 

 triangular, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, hindmargin 

 rounded, rather strongly oblique, inner margin in £ prominent 

 beyond middle ; rather dark brown ; veins and folds slenderly 

 yellowish-white ; a small yellowish- white basal patch, containing a 

 basal orange spot, and about six sometimes partially connected 

 small blackish marks ; a narrow ochreous-white median longitudinal 

 streak from base, terminating in a moderate irregular roundish 

 spot in middle of disc, shortly acutely produced along vein 3 ; 

 cilia fuscous. Hindwings yellowish-white ; a moderate blackish 

 hindmarginal band, dilated towards apex, rather projecting inwards 

 below middle, narrowed at anal angle, and continued as a dark 

 grey suffusion along inner margin ; cilia blackish. 



Cape York and Cooktown, Queensland ; six specimens (Coll. 

 Macleay and Masters). Also from New Guinea ; if the form 

 silvandra, Cr., is specifically identical, it extends to India. 



110. Hyps, plagiata, Walk. 



(Hypsa plagiata, Walk. Bomb. 457 ; H. discreta, ib. Suppl. 216.) 

 <£ 2' 50-63 mm. Head orange, sometimes with small dark 

 fuscous spot on crown. Palpi black, second joint ochreous-yellow 

 except at apex. Antennae blackish, fascicles 1. Thorax dark 

 fuscous, collar, patagia, and back margined with orange. Abdomen 

 orange, segments with basal blackish bands, sometimes obsolete 

 towards base, extreme apex blackish. Legs dark fuscous, suffusedly 

 spotted with whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate-triangular, 



