CIKPHIS. 



489 



streaked with white, a white point at lower angle of cell with 

 more or less fuscous round it ; an indistinct highly crenulate 

 postmedial line, bent outward* below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique or reduced to two series of points ; the veins of 

 terminal area pale and with slight dark streaks in the interspaces 

 between them ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 whitish tinged with brown, deepening to fuscous towards termen ; 

 the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, the 

 terminal area suffused with fuscous to vein 2. 



Hah. AusTEALiA. {Darnel), 1 $ type curta ; S. Atjstealia, Gis- 

 borne, Parkside. E.vj). 36 millim, 



1844. CirpMs abdominalis. (Plate XCI. fig. 24.) 



Nonagria ahdominalis, Wlk. ix. 131 (1856). 



Myihimna robusta, Wlk. xi. 710 (1857). 



Leucania labecuiiif, Lucas, Proc. Roy. See. Queensland, viii. p. 84 (1892). 



Head and thorax ochreous rufous ; abdomen pale, tinged with 

 rufous. Fore wing ochreous rufous, sometimes rather greyer, 

 slightly irrorated with darker scales ; the costal edge whitish ; a 

 small whitish spot at lower angle of cell with a black point before 

 it in angle ; an indistinct obliquely curved postmedial series of dark 

 points on the veins ; a more or less prominent terminal series of 

 dark points. Hind wing white, the veins and termen tinged with 

 yellow-brown, the cilia with a vinous tinge; the underside with the 

 costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a series of black 

 points on termen. 



Hah. Queensland, Brisbane {Turner), 1 (5,1 $, Kockhampton, 

 1 5 ; New South Wales, Moreton Bay ( Biggies), 1 J type robusta ; 

 Atjstkalia, 1 J type. iili^). 38-40 millim. 



1845. Cirphis adjuncta. (Plate XCI. fig. 25.) 



Leucania adjuncta, Wlk. Cliar. Lep. Het. p. 68 (1869). 



$ . Head and thorax pale brownish grey irrorated with black 

 scales ; fore legs with the tufts on coxae tinged with rufous and on 

 tibiae with purplish fuscous ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. 

 Fore wing pale grey-brown irrorated with black, the disk tinged 

 with purplish ; the costal edge whitish ; the antemedial line repre- 

 sented by obscure black spots in and below cell ; a small Avhitish 

 spot at lower angle of cell with a black point before it in angle ; a 

 curved postmedial series of black points on the veins ; a more or 

 less prominent series of terminal points. Hind wing white, the 

 veins and terminal area down to vein 2 tinged with fuscous brown; 

 cilia brown with pale line at base and purplish tips, white from 

 vein 2 to tornus ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas 

 to vein 2 irrorated with brown, a terminal series of black points. 



$ browner ; fore wing without the purplish tinge. 

 Ab. 1. Fore wing with fuscous patch beyond lower angle of cell; 

 hind wing much more suffused with brown. 



