474 NocTuii)^. 



scales ; froiis with black bar ; tegula) with two black lines ; patagia 

 with black line near margins ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen 

 brown, laterallj' and ventrally tinged with j)nrple. Fore wing 

 leaden grej', slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with fuscous; 

 the medial area with the costal edge wliite and with black fasciae 

 in discal and snbmedian folds ; the lines double tilled in with white; 

 subbasal line waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 oblique, waved, angled outwards above inner margin, not connected 

 with the claviform, which is narrow and defined by white ; orbicular 

 and reniform with white annuli, the former small, round, the latter 

 narrow, with pale centre defined by brown ; postmedial line strongly 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate and with series 

 of dentate black marks on its inner side, oblique below vein 4 ; 

 subterminal line white, with prominent series of dentate black 

 marks on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia intersected 

 with grey. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia pale rufous ; the 

 underside ochreous irrorated with brown ; a diffused curved post- 

 medial line, the area beyond it suffused with fuscous from apex to 

 vein 2. 



Hah. VrcTOEiA, Melbourne, type f J in Coll. Turner. E,vp. 

 40 millim. 



1822. Dasygaster ligniplena. 



Xylina ligniplena, Wlk. xi. 762 (1857). 



(S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some grev ; frons 

 with black bar ; teguloe with black medial line ; patagia with some 



Fig. 142. — Dasyga&tcr Ucjniplcna, (^ . \. 



black scales above ; spurs and tarsi with pale rings ; abdomeo 

 rufous, pale at base. Fore wing rufous and pale ochreous irrorated 

 with black ; the veins irrorated with black ; a black streak below base 

 of cell ; subbasal line defined by pale colour on outer side, waved, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line defined by pale colour on 

 inner side, oblique towards costa, then dentate ; claviform absent ; 

 orbicular a small pale mark; reniform small, with p;ile annulus and 

 white point on its lower edge ; some dark suffusion above and 

 below end of median nervure and between veins 5 and 2 ; post- 



