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NOCTXJIDiE. 



yellowish spots just before termen sometimes formino; a narrow 

 patch at apex and interrupted at submedian fold. Underside of 

 fore wing with the subterminal band broader and more evenly 

 curved, the spots before termen wedge-shaped ; bind wing with 

 diffused curved subterminal whitish line, the apical patch diffused. 

 Hah. Queensland, Moreton Bay (Cap^. Parry), 1 J ; ISl . 8. Wales, 

 Sidney (Baynor), 2 d" , 5 2 ; Tasmania {Sir G. Smith, J. J. Waller), 

 3 c? type. Ea;p. 44-62 millim. 



Genus IPANICA, n. n. 



Type. 



Ipana, Jordan, Nov. Zool. iii. p. 54 (1896), nee Wlk. 1858 cornlgera. 



Proboscis fully de'reloped ; palpi porreet, the 2nd joint moderately fringed 

 ■with hair, tlie 3rd moderate ; frons with long flattened corneous process and 

 quadrate corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male minutely 

 serrate and ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair only and without crests ; tibife 

 moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the 

 apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not 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 vein 2 from near angle of cell ; 

 3. 4 from angle; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from ujaper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4925. Ipanica cornlgera. 



^gocera cornigero, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 381 ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. 

 Het. p. 37. 



Head and thorax black-brown ; palpi white at base and with 

 white band at extremity of 2nd joint; head with white lateral 

 stripes ; tegulfe dorsally and at sides, patagia at middle and meta- 

 thorax with white stripes ; pectus orange; legs orange mixed with 



Fig. 2\Q.— Ipanica cornlgera, (^ . \. 



brown, the tibise at extremities and the tarsi brown banded with 

 white ; abdomen orange with brov.nish segmental lines, the ventral 

 surface banded with brown. Fore wing red-brown slightly irrorated 

 with yellowish ; some yellow at base of inner margin ; two small 

 white spots at base followed by another below costa ; a narrow 

 oblique antemedial baud from costa to above vein 1 where it forks 

 slightly, incurved below costa ; four small spots above medial part 

 of inner margin and one in submedian fold ; an elliptical spot in 

 end of cell ; a postmedial band from costa to vein 2, excurved beloAV 



