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Noetuina. 

 APAMID.E. 



D AS YG ASTER MUNDOIDES, fl. Sp. 



Male and female, 38-42 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous- 

 reddish, sprinkled with ashy-whitish. Antennae whitish, annulated 

 with black ; base snow-white. Ciliation one. Abdomen greyish- 

 ochreous, anal-tuft reddish. Legs dark-fuscous, mixed with 

 reddish and clothed with long whitish hairs ; tibiae and tarsi 

 fuscous-reddish, with suffused Avhitish apical rings. Forewings 

 moderate, posteriorly dilated , costa gently arched, hindmargin 

 nearly straight, oblique ; brownish, minutely and closely irrorated 

 with black and white scales ; veins outlined with reddish towards 

 hindmargin, in middle somewhat with blackish, a strongly 

 angulated reddish-fuscous indistinct line from costa at one-fourth 

 to inner margin at one-tliird, a paler ovate spot lying longitudin- 

 ally in disc above middle at one-third ; an irregular 8-shaped 

 spot immediately beyond, not indented anteriorly ; an irregular 

 outward-curved dentate line from about two-thirds of costa to 

 two-thirds innermargin, with a projection inwards below middle 

 to beneath middle of 8-shaped spot; a row of suffused black hind- 

 marginal spots ; ciha coppery-fuscous, with two waved fuscous 

 lines. Hindwings iridescent-whitish, a suffused blackish hind- 

 marginal band broadest at apex, and gradually narrowing to 

 a point towards anal angle ; cilia snow-white, with a few black 

 scales at apex (variable). In the female the markings of fore- 

 wings are almost obliterated in the general ground-colour, and 

 the hindwings almost wholly suffused with fuscous. 



Black w^ood, Parkside, South Australia ; and Melbourne, Vic- 

 toria. At first sight very like Agrotis munda, Walk., but the 

 antennae afford a distinguishing test. 



NOCTUID.E. 

 Orthosia cremnodes, n. sp. 



Male and female, 35-38 mm. Head l)lackish, minutely 

 irrorated with grey ; palpi fuscous, mixed with black and white, 

 internally paler. Antennae rufous beneath, fuscous above. 

 Thorax blackish, with a distinct narrow whitish anterior band, 

 cleft in middle. Abdomen whitish - fuscous. Legs reddish- 

 fuscous, tibire and tarsi with indistinct white bands. Forewings 

 moderate ; costa straight, hindmargin somewhat waved, rounded ; 

 blackish or black, minutely irrorated with grey ; veins indistinctly 

 outlined in black ; a yellow dot in disc at end of cell ; a trans- 

 verse row of black dots beyond ; a narrow pale-fuscous hind- 

 marginal line ; cilia dark-fuscous, basal-half black. Hindwings 

 iridescent-whitish ; a suffused blackish apical patch, abruptly 



