460 noctuid^:. 



oblique series of small blue spots from costa to vein 2, then 

 retracted to below end of cell and running as a line to inner 

 margin ; a curved subterminal series of blue spots ; cilia white 

 at apex and towards tornus. Hind wing with oblique series of 

 yellowish- white spots from vein 4 beyond the cell to tornus ; cilia 

 white at apex and tornus and with white spots at middle ; the 

 underside with two blue postmedial spots helow costa. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing with the five spots much nearer termen. — 

 Cedar Bay (MeeJc), in Coll. Rothschild. 



Hah. N. Australia, Pt. Essington {MeGillivray), 2 <J , 4 $ , 

 Pt. Darwin (J. J. Walker), 2 J , 2 § ; Queensland, Cedar Bay. 

 Eccp. 48-56 millim. 



4941. Idalima cyanobasis, n. n. 



Agarista novts-hibemics, Butl. 111. Het. B.M. i. p. 8, pi. 4. f. 5 (nee Boiscl.). 



S . Head and thorax black; 1st and 2nd joints of palpi pale 

 yellow with some black scales : sides of frons, vertex of head, 

 tegulae, patagia, and vertex of thorax striped with pale yellow ; 

 gulae pale yellow ; pectus with yellowish-white hair ; legs black 

 striped with white, mid tibiae above except at base and extremity 

 orange ; abdomen grey above, the anal tuft orange with black 

 dorsal spot, the ventral surface white at base, orange towards 

 extremity. Fore wing black Avith greenish-yellow spots at base, 

 two short subbasal lines below costa, a wedge-shaped patch below 

 the cell, its extremity connected by a bar with a streak on base 

 of inner margin, a medial band from cell to inner margin with 

 an oblique mark beyond it from submeclian fold to inner margin ; 

 purple-blue spots in middle and end of cell ; a yellow band 

 beyond the cell from costa to vein 2, oblique and sinuous to vein 5, 

 then bent outwards and with three strong dentations on outer 

 side, some purple-blue scales running obliquely from its lower 

 extremity^ to the oblique mark on inner area ; a subterminal series 

 of small purple-blue spots on the veins, the spot on vein 5 displaced 

 inwards ; cilia white at apex and above tornus. Hind wing black, 

 the basal half suffused with greenish yellow except on costal area; 

 cilia chequered white and black ; underside with the basal half 

 greenish yellow extending on inner area to tornus, a black 

 discoidal lunulc, a postmedial series of purple-blue spots. 



Hub. N. Australia, Pt. Essington {MeGillivray), 1 6 ty r pe. 

 Exp. 44 millim. 



*4942. Idalima hemiphragma. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 26.) 

 Cruria hemiphragma, Lower, Tr. R. Soc. S. Austr. xxvii. p. 30 (190o). 



($ . Dark red-brown ; head and thorax with some ochreous hair ; 

 a white band behind eyes ; coxae yellow ; tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen with the last two segments yellow, the ventral surface 

 banded with yellow. Fore wing with series of four small white 

 spots below basal half of costa and above basal half of vein 1 ; 



