NEOCLEPTRIA. RHODOCLEPTEIA. 



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to inner margin 



the postmedial line dentate and produced to 

 white points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 3, then incurved and with indistinct lijie beyond it ; the 

 subterminal line pale, angled outwards below costa, inwards at 

 discal fold, then excurved and with dark mark on its inner side at 

 costa ; a terminal series of black points and often some black marks 

 at middle ; cilia chequered fuscous and rufous. Hind wing white, 

 the basal and inner areas sometimes tinged with fuscous ; a more 



Fig. 15. — Ncocleptria jJiinctifera, J. \. 



or less prominent dark discoidal lunule : the terminal area black, 

 with diiiused inner edge and often with pale subterminal spot at 

 middle : cilia white, with dark line at base. Underside white : 

 fore wing with the orbicular and reniform stigmata black ; both 

 wings with fuscous postmedial band. 



Hab. N. Australia, Eoebuck B. {J. J. Wall-er), 3 5 ; W. Aus- 

 tralia, Sherlock E,. (Clements), 3 cj' , 5 $, Geraldton (Saunders), 

 2 2; ^- S. Wales, Broken Hill (Lower), 3 cJ, 6 § ; Victoria, 

 Melbourne ; hab. ? 1 c? , 5 ? type. Exy. 32-38 millim. 



Genus RHODOCLEPTRIA, nov. 



Type, E. iiicarnaia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, fringed with long hair in front, 

 tlie 3rd joint short ; frons with rounded prominence, with corneous plate below 

 it ; eyes large, rounded ; antenna; of male almost simple ; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair, without crests ; fore tibife short and broad, with long curved 

 claw on inner side and short claw on outer ; mid and hind tibite spined. 

 Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from h) anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; o obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 <>, 7 from upper angle 



40. Rhodocleptria incarnata. 



Noctua incarnata, Freyer, Beitr. iii. pi. i.^ili, f. 4 (1839), & iv. pi. 383 ; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 222. 

 Hvliothis boisduvalii, Boisd. Geu. et Ind. Meth. p. 163 (1840) ; Dup. Lep 



Fr. Suppl. iii. pi. 38. f. 5 ; HenvSchiiff. Schmett. Eur. ii. pi. 52. f. 262. 



Head and thorax pale olive-green, more or less strongly tinged 

 with pink ; hair on pectus white, on legs pink ; abdomen brownish 

 white, with the dorsal crest at base and ventral surface pink. Fore 

 wing olive-yellow ; the costa tinged with pink with dark points on 

 it ; the orbicular represented by a dark point; the reniform a small 



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