rilOPATRIA. 



051 



Genus PROPATRIA, nov. 



Type, P. ncuroides. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint oblique and fringed with 

 hair in front, the 3rd porrect ; frons with large truncate conical prominence 

 with corneous rim at extremity; eyes large, rounded ; antenn;e of male ciliated; 

 head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the pro- and nietathorax with 

 spreading crests ; tibias fringed with hair, the niid and hind tibia; with a few 

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

 angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola ; 11 from cell. Hind 



(3 obsolescent from middle of disco- 

 / shortly stalked. 



wmg with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell 

 cellulars; 6 " ' 



A. Fore wing with the veins defliied by dentate wliite strealis 



towards termen ncuroides. 



B. Fore wing with the veins not defined by dentate white streaks 



towards termen mundoides. 



1118. Propatria neiiroides. 

 Heliothis neiiroides, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 128 (1901). 



Head and thorax clothed with white, rufous, and black scales ; 

 abdomen ochreous, ventrally white irrorated with brown. Fore 

 wing clothed with white, rufous, and brown scales ; the veins with 

 dark streaks defined by white ; the discal and submedian folds 

 with rufous streaks ; an indistinct, slightly dentate, white and 

 brown antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform small, indistinct, 



Fig. 122. — Propatria ncuroides, (^ . \. 



with brown centres and white annuli defined by brown, tlie former 

 elongate ; postmedial line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, angled inwards in submedian fold, then out- 

 wards on vein 1 ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia intersected 

 with white. Hind wing white, the veins and termen slightly tinged 

 with brown in male, in female the terminal area suffused with 

 brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 



J I ah. W. Australia, Sherlock R. {Chmeats), 2 c?, 4$. Exj). 32 

 milHm. Type t in Mus. Oxon. 



1119. Propatria mundoides. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 24.) 

 Agrotis mundoides, Lower, ined. 



Head and thorax clothed with dull rufous and dark brown scales 

 tipped with grey ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen pale brown, 

 the ventral surface white irrorated with brown. Fore wing dull 



