476 



NOCTDID.E. 



fuscous. P'ore wing paleochreous, tiuged with reddish and irrorated 

 with dark brown ; a slight black streak below base of cell ; sub- 

 basal line represented by a black point on costa ; an indistinct 

 waved aiitemedial line with double jjoints at costa ; claviform 

 absent ; orbicular and reniform small, indistinct, pale with brown 

 centres, the former elongate elliptical, the latter sometimes with 

 slight white streak on lower edge; some black suffusion in, below, 

 and beyond lower angle of cell ; postmedial line dentate and 

 produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa and 

 oblique below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line dark, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle 

 and bent outwards to tornus, the area beyond it darker except at 

 apex. Hind wing fuscous, paler towards base ; cilia pale brownish ; 

 the underside whiti.-h slightly tinged with purplish red, irrorated 

 with fuscous, a black discoidal spot and curved postmedial line with 

 fuscous suffusion beyond it. 



llab. S. Australia, Parkside {Lower), 1 J , 1 5 > ^JP^- Exp. 

 32 millim. 



1825. Dasygaster hoUandiae. 



Lasj/gader hollandice, Guen. Noct. i. p. 201 (1852). 

 Dasi/gaMcr leucanioidoi, Guen. Noct. i. p. 202 (1852). 

 Graphi'pliora facili&, Wlk. xi. 745 (1857J. 



Head and thorax grey and fuscous tinged with rufous ; frons with 

 dark bar; tcgulne with dark medial line; spurs and tarsi ringed 

 with white; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing brown tinged with 



Fig. \A^.- Dasygaster hoUavdlcp, J. 



rufous, the veins fuscous irrorated with white ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by slight dark striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, double filled in with greyish, highly waved ; claviform 

 represented by a slight pale mark with some dark scales on its 

 edges ; orbicular and reniform small,' with brown centres and 

 whitish aunuli defined by brown, the former elongate elliptical, the 

 latter with a more or less prominent white streak on its lower edge ; 

 postmedial line dentate and produced to black and white points on 

 the veins, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal 

 fold, oblique below vein 4, some while points on costa beyond it; 

 subtcrminal line represented by whitish points on a series of short 

 black streaks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of black points : cilia with a fine pale line at base. 



