New Australian Lepidoptera, with 

 Synonomic and other Notes. 



By A. Jefferis Turxer, M.D.. F.E.S. 



[Read May 5, 1903 ] 



Faiii. NOCTUIDtE. 



Sub-fam. Agaristin^. 

 Though a very natural group, this cannot, I believe, be 

 separated from the Noctuidce by any single structural character, 

 and it is therefore, I consider, best treated as a sub-family. Sir 

 Geo. Hampson restricts the Agaristidce to those genera having 

 antennse more or less dilated before apex, but I do not think this 

 is a natural line of division. 



CrURIA SYNOPLA, 71. S}?. 



(Sunoplos, allied). 



Male and female, 46-54 mm. Differs from Cruria do7iova7ii, 

 Bdv., as follows : — Wings with markings of a deeper shade of 

 ochreous ; spots on forewings smaller, basal and subapical spots 

 nearly obsolete ; spots beneath end of cell, and to a less extent 

 than in cell, obscured by dark-fuscous.irroration ; basal subcostal 

 streak reduced to a thin row of scales ; a well-marked narrow 

 streak from base of dorsum parallel to basal half of lower edge of 

 cell ; cilia with white bars less marked and obsolete in apical 

 half of termen of forewing. A fine ochreous line across thorax 

 connects the dorsal streaks of the forevvings. 



This species has been confused with C. do7iovani, and I can 

 understand naturalists who are not acquainted with both forms 

 in their natural state doubting their distinctness. Both forms 

 are constant in their markings, and the median basal streak of 

 forewings of the present species distinguishes it at once. Bois- 

 duval's description of C. donorani would apply to either species^ 

 but Herrich-Sphaeffer's accurate figure is certainly do7iova7ii, as 

 is also Butler's figure (I 1. Het., B.M., I., PL iv., f. 7), but 

 Hampton's woodcut of do7iovani (Cat. Lep. Phal, III., p. 546) i& 

 taken from an example of synopla. 



Both species occur on the coast of Southern Queensland^ 

 synopla being especially abundant. Do7iovani is abundant on 

 the Darling Downs, but I have not observed the former there. 



