EUXOA. 165 



brown, dorsally tinged with fuscous, ventrally paler with sublateral 

 series of black spots. Pore wing grey-brown irrorated with black ; 

 the subbasal lino represented by double striae from costa ; the ante- 

 medial line double, waved, acutely angled inwards on median nervure, 

 then sharply outwards above inner margin ; claviform usually pre- 

 sent, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform small, with fuscous 

 centres and whitish annnli defined by black, the former round, the 

 cell before and between them black ; a dentate black mark beyond 

 the latter ; the postmedial line double, dentate, and produced to 

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

 vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line pale, defined by indis- 

 tinct dentate brown marks on its inner side, the area beyond it dark, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3 ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins, apical area and 

 termen fuscous brown ; the underside with prominent apical patch. 



Hah. AtrsTEALiA, 1 c? type, cordata ; N. S. Wales (Raynor), 2 c? ; 

 YiCTOBiA ; New Hebrides, Aneiteum, 1 cS type aneituma. Exp. 

 40-44 millim. 



Larva. Frogatt, Agric. Gaz. N. S. Wales, x. p. 1252 (1900). 



Smooth, hairless, varying from pale olive-green to dull black and 

 with lateral stripes. Food-plants : grasses, TrifoUum, etc. 



This is the edible " BugongMoth," the perfect insect being roasted 

 and eaten in large numbers by the natives. 



287. Eiixoa porphyricoUis. (Plate LX. fig. 9.) 



AgrotisporphyricolUs, Guen. Noct. i. p. 259 (1852). 

 Pcrigea alhinasiis, Wlk, x. 276 (1856). 

 Agrotis ruhnlinea, Wlk. x. o51 (1856). 

 Agrotis rccondita, Wlk. x. 351 (1856). 

 Agrotis diyrskmis, Wlk. xv. 1701 (1858). 

 Grapldphora. lapidosa, Wlk. xv. 1707 (1858). 

 SpeBlotis pectin ata, Wlk. xxxiii. 707 (1865). 

 Elegarda orthosioidcs, Wlk. xxxiii. 712 (1865). 

 Tetrapyrgiagraphiphorides, Wlk. xxxiii. 712 (1865). 

 Flegarda summa, Wlk. xxxiii. 713 (1865). 

 Hadena alhipalpis, Wlk. xxxiii. 741 (1865). 

 Agrotis haueri, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 10 (1874). 



Head and thorax bright rufous or dark brown more or less strongly 

 mixed with grey ; palpi blackish at sides, whitish in front and at 

 tips : pectus and legs mostly grey, the tarsi banded with black ; 

 abdomen grey, dorsally suffused with fuscous, veutrally irrorated 

 with brown. Fore wing bright or pale rufous, or grey, more or less 

 strongly irrorated and striated with dark brown and often suffused 

 with fuscous ; a double minutely waved subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; a double antemedial line angled outwards below 

 costa and above inner margin ; claviform small, or minute, blackish : 

 orbicular and reniform with blackish centres and obscure outline, the 

 former very small, the latter with brown stride from costa above it 

 and indistinct waved line from it to inner margin ; the postmedial 

 line minutely dentate, often indistinct, slightly bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line only 



