NET7MICHTIS. NYCTYCIA. 



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oblique elliptical and touching, or confluent with a similar stigma 

 below the cell ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line 

 defined by whitisli on outer side, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4 and produced to slight streaks on the veins, 

 then incurved to lower edge of reniform and angled outwards on 

 veins 2 and 1, a diffused blackish fascia from it to termen above 

 and below vein 2 ; subterminal line indistinct, whitish defined on 

 inner side by small dentate black marks, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and dentate to termen at veins 4, 3 ; cilia fuscous intersected with 

 white. Hind wing fuscous, the basal half rather paler ; cilia white 

 with some fuscous at middle and apex ; the underside white slightly 

 irrorated with brown, the terminal area broadly black ; a black 

 discoidal lunule. 



Hab. N. S. Wales (Raynor), 2 5 ; Victoria, Gisborne (LifcU), 

 1 c?, 1 ?; Tasmania, 1 $ type. Ea^j. 34-40 millim. 



Genus NYCTYCIA, nov. 



Type, N. jwrsimiUs. 



Proboscis fully develojiod ; palpi porrecfc to just beyond fro;ital tuft and 

 fringed with long hair below ; frons smooth ; eyes rather small and somewhat 

 reniform ; antennas of male minutely serrate, with fascicles of long cilia ; liead 

 and thorax smoothly clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and luetathorax with 

 spreading crests ; jjectus and legs clothed with rather long hair ; abdomen with 

 dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the 

 termen obliquely curved and somewhat crenulate ; veins o and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; (> from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areola; 11 from cell. Hind wnig with veins 3, 4 siiortly stalked ; .5 obsoles- 

 cent from just below middle of discoeellulars ; G, 7 shortly stalked ; S anas- 

 tomosing with the cell ne.,r base only. 



Sect. I. Palpi with the 3rd joint long and dilated at extremity. 



24G7. Nyctycia plagiogramma, n. sp. 



S . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with fuscous ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; frons with black bar ; antenna) blackish ; tegulae 

 with black medial shade ; tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen 



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Fig. 91. — Nyctycia plagiogramma, (^ . \. 



ochreous brown suffused with fuscous except anal tuft and base of 

 ventral surface. Fore wing ochreous brown irrorated with fuscous ; 

 a sinuoits black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line represented 

 by a black point on costa; antemedial line double at costa, then 

 single, oblique to submedian fold, then obsolete ; claviforrn fuscous 

 defined by black and confluent with lower edge of orbicular, which 



