PHRAGMATirillLA. 



2G; 



Sect. I. Antenna; of male bipectinate with rather long branches to apex. 



4655. Phragmatipliila truncata. 



Leucania frmicata, Wlk. ix. Ill (ISoG). 



Leucauia leoniita, Wlk. xxxii. (')27 (ISlif)). 



Nonagria e.vitiosa, Oliff. Agric. Gaz. N.S.W. iv. p. 380, pi. 22. f. E (1893). 



Head and thorax greyish ochreous mixed with fuscous brown ; 

 antennae pale ochreous ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wiiii>; 

 ochreous sutmsed and irrorated with reddish brown ; traces of 

 antemedial dark points on the veins; an indistinct double oblique 

 postmedial series of slight dark points from vein G to inner margin; 



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Fig. 112. — F]n-agiji((iij)hil(( trimcatd, J. \. 



a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous white 

 slightly tinged with brown ; the underside pale ochreous, the costal 

 area slightly tinged with rufous. 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing entirely suffused with fuscous. 



$ , Fore wing more ochreous without reddish tinge. 



Ab. 2 {leonina). Fore wing with the median nervure and vein 4 

 streaked with fuscous. 



Hah. N. S. Wales (Rai/nor), 2 ^ , I 2; S. Australia, Adelaide, 

 3 5 tj-pe; Tasmania, 1 $ type leonina. Exp. 2S-30 millim. 



Larva. Pinkish, purplish above ; lateral line very indistinct ; 

 ventral surface yellowish white ; head red-brown ; thoracic plate 

 yellow-brown : each somite with four dorsal and two lateral warts 

 and similar subventral warts. Food-plant : Keeds, in the stems. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Fore wing red-brown, the reniform white, its upper extremity 



bent outwards and lower extremity angled inwards 7iex'(i. 



B. Fore wing greyish suifused with brown, an indistinct whitish 



disgoidal bar sermfa. 



C. Fore wing fuscous black, the reniform with white annulus fiimea. 



4656. Phragmatipliila nexa. 



Kontua vexa, Hiibn. Eur. Schniett., Noct. f. 395 (1808) ; Frr. Xeue 

 Schmett. ii. pi. 136. ff. 3, 4; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. S /hmett., Koct. ff. 342, 

 343 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 187. 



Head and thorax red-brown w^ith a greyish tinge ; palpi and 

 sides of frons dark brown; tarsi dark brown with slight pale rings; 

 abdomen pale red-brown, the basal crest blackish. Fore wing pale 

 red-brown suffused with rufous, the terminal area rather greyer. 



