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NOCTUIDJS. 



the interspaces of terminal area streaked with fiery red ; suhbasal 

 line represented by a slight black spot on costa ; antemcdial line 

 indistinct, minutely dentate, angled outwards in submedian fold ; 

 claviform absent ; orbicular a black point ; reniform represented 

 by fiery red marks before and beyond the black discoidal line ; a 

 sinuous black line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; post- 

 medial line very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct 

 dentate subterminal dark line angled outwards below veins 7 and 

 4; a fine waved black terminal line; cilia fiery red mixed with 

 blackish. Hind wing uniform reddish brown ; cilia reddish at 

 base ; the underside greyish irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal 

 spot and terminal series of lunules. 



Huh. Queensland, Adayale, typef J in Coll. Turner. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



Genus DYSMILICHIA. 



Type. 



Phalacra, Staud. Horn. Mem. vi. p. 5G8 (1892), nee VVlk. Lep. 



1 866 gcmella. 



Miliehia, Suell. Tijd. v. Ent. xli. p. 194 (1898), nee Mieg. Dipt. 



1 830 gemctta. 



Dysmilichia, Speiser, Berl. ent. Zeit. xlvii. p. 140 (1902) gemella. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi oblique, short, fringed with hair in front; 

 frons with truncate conical prominence with raised edges and corneous plate 

 below it; eyes large, rounded; antennas of male typically ciliated; build 

 slender; thorax clothed chiefly with scales and without crests; tibire moderately 

 fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing short and broad, the 

 apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and non-crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 0, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male serrate. 



*4112. Dysmilichia rufalis. 



Protagrotis rufalis, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 191 (190f>). 



c?. Head and thorax fiery red mixed with some brown; vertex 

 of thorax brown ; palpi with some brown at side of 2nd joint ; 

 hinder part of pectus and mid and hind legs mostly whitish ; 

 abdomen whitish tinged with rufous, especially towards base of 

 dorsum. Fore wing orange-red irrorated with fiery red to post- 

 medial line, some brown on inner margin except at base, the 

 terminal area brown with a greyish tinge and slightly irrorated 

 with fiery red; subbasal line brown, extending to inner margin 

 and bent outwards at vein 1 ; antemedial line double filled in with 

 orange, slightly incurved in cell, then excurved; claviform absent ; 

 orbicular orange-red defined by black, small, round ; reniform 

 orange-red defined by black on inner side, faintly defined on outer 



