450 NOCTUID.E. 



yellowish spots just before termen sometimes forming a narrow 

 patch at apex and interrupted at submedian fold. Underside of 

 fore wing with the subterminal band broader and more evenly- 

 curved, the spots before termen wedge-shaped ; bind wing with 

 diffused curved subterminal whitish line, the apical patch diffused. 

 Hab. Queensland, Moreton Bay (Ca/pt. Parry), 1 J ; N. S. Wales, 

 Sidney (Raynor), 2 J , 5 2 ; Tasmania (Sir G. Smith, J. J. Walker), 

 3 (S type. Exp. 44-62 millim. 



Genus IPANICA, n. n. 



' Type. 



Ipana, Jordan, Nov. Zool. iii. p. 54 (1896), nee Wlk. 1858 corniyera. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, the 2nd joint moderately fringed 

 with hair, the 3rd moderate ; frons with long flattened corneous process and 

 quadrate corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male minutely 

 serrate and ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair only and without crests ; tibiae 

 moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the 

 apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from near angle of cell ; 

 3, 4 from angle; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4925. Ipanica cornigera. 



Myocera corniyera, Butl. Trans. Ent, Soc. 1886, p. 381 ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. 

 Het. p. 37. 



Head and thorax black-brown ; palpi white at base and with 

 white band at extremity of 2nd joint; head with white lateral 

 stripes ; teguhe dorsally and at sides, patagia at middle and meta- 

 thorax with white stripes ; pectus orange ; legs orange mixed with 



Fig. 216.— Ipanica corniyera, $ . \. 



brown, the tibia? at extremities and the tarsi brown banded with 

 white ; abdomen orange with brownish segmental lines, the ventral 

 surface banded with brown. Fore wing red-brown slightly irrorated 

 with yellowish ; some yellow at base of inner margin ; two small 

 white spots at base followed by another below costa ; a narrow 

 oblique antemedial band from costa to above vein 1 where it forks 

 slightly, incurved below costa ; four small spots above medial part 

 of inner margin and one in submedian fold ; an elliptical spot in 

 end of cell ; a postmedial band from costa to vein 2, excurved below 



