654 NOCTTJID^ 



tinged with fuscous ; a tine terminal black line except tow aids 

 tornus; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous. 



2 • Hind wing suffused with brown, 



Mab. AusTEALiA (Dir/ifles), 1 c? type ; 8. Atjstkalia, Alice Spring 

 (Lower), 1 cJ , Eaj). 36 millim. 



1123. Eclopatria aspera. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 27.) 



Hadena aspera, Wlk. xi. 601 (1857). 

 Xylina provida, Wlk. xv. 1737 (1858). 

 Xylina canescens, Wlk. xsxiii. 757 (1865). 



(S . Head and thorax grey tinged with browji and irrorated with 

 black ; palpi with the 2nd joint blackish at sides ; tegula) with black 

 medial line ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen dorsally tinged 

 with brown. Pore wiug whitish, more or less tinged with brown 

 and irrorated with fuscous ; the subbasal line represented by black 

 striae below costa and cell ; the antemedial line oblique, waved, 

 defined by black on inner side; claviform elongate, defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and grey 

 annuli defined bj' black, the former small, nearly round, the latter 

 constricted at middle ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, defined 

 by white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblique and angled inwards in submedian fold : an 

 indistinct pale subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and ex- 

 curved at middle, and with some dentate blackish marks on inner 

 side ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wiug semihyaline 

 white, the veins fuscous ; the terminal area fuscous, broadly at costa, 

 narrowing to a point at tornus ; the underside with large black 

 apical patch. 



Bab. N. S. Wales, 1 6 type, {Bay nor) 1 J ; jN'ew Zealand, 

 Auckland, 3 6 , types provida and caiiescens. Eap. 38-40 millim. 



1124. Ectopatria umbrosa, n. sp. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 28.) 



5 . Head and thorax grey-brown, the scales tipped with grey ; 

 abdomen yellowish brown. Pore wiug grey thickly irrorated with 

 fuscous ; the costa, discal and submedian folds with slight pale 

 ochreous streaks ; a waved black subbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; a waved antemedial line slightly defined by grey on 

 inner side ; claviform indistinct, slightly defined by black : orbicular 

 and reniform with brownish centres and grey anuuli defined by 

 black, the former elliptical, oblique, the latter constricted at middle ; 

 a waved medial line indistinct except below cell ; a dentate post- 

 medial line defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and angled inwards in sub- 

 median fold: the subterminal line represented by very indistinct 

 dentate marks. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia white, with 

 brown line at base except towards tornus. 



Hab. Queensland (Matheiv), 1 $ type. E^ip. 40 millim. 



