-l> NOCTUID.E. 



fulvous suffusion before if, and brown patches beyond it, at discal 

 and submedian folds, excurved to near termen at middle ; a terminal 

 series of blackish striae ; cilia brownish mixed with whitish. Hind 

 wing whitish mostly suffused with rufous; an indistinct dark 

 subbasal line, a red discoidal bar with some black scales on it ; a 

 sinuous black postmedial line with whitish band beyond it and 

 traces of a sinuous whitish subterminal line; a fine dark terminal 

 line; the underside white tinged with brown, a slight discoidal 

 striga and curved postmedial line. 



Hub. Bengal, Calcutta {Atkinson), 2 <f type ; Ceylon (Pole), 

 1 d • Exp. 14 millim. 



5011. Araeoptera epiphracta. (Plate CXLIX. fig. 15.) 

 Thelxinoa epiphracta, Turner, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxvii. p. 132 (1902). 



J . Head and thorax white ; palpi and irons black-brown, the 

 latter with orange bar above ; antenme brown except at base ; 

 abdomen white with some blackish irroration except at base ; fore 

 legs and mid tibia? in front blackish ; pectus, hind legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing white, the apical area 

 from middle of costa to tornus black-brown ; a subbasal black spot 

 on costa; antemedial line oblique, fulvous with a black spot at 

 costa ; an oblique black discoidal bar with black spot above it on 

 costa with fulvous streak below it, an oblique fulvous line from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line black-brown 

 defined on outer side by white suffusion and also on inner side from 

 costa to vein 4, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then bent 

 outwards to tornus ; a diffused waved subterminal white line from 

 costa to termen at vein 2 ; some white at apex ; a terminal series 

 of small black spots with rufous between them ; cilia chequered 

 black-brown and whitish. Hind wing white slightly irrorated 

 with rufous and dark brown ; a black point at upper angle of cell 

 with sinuous line from it to inner margin ; a sinuous rufous post- 

 medial line with some black scales on it ; a rather diffused sinuous 

 rufous subterminal line with some black scales on it ; a terminal 

 series of small black spots with rufous between them ; cilia chequered 

 whitish and black-brown ; the underside whitish suffused with 

 fuscous brown, a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hob. Queensland, Brisbane (Turner), 1 J . Exp. 14 millim. 



5012. Araeoptera pleurotypa. (Plate CXLIX. fig. 16.) 



Thelxinoa pleurotypa, Turner, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxvii. p. 123 

 (1902). 



3 . Head and thorax white ; palpi and frons black, the latter 

 with orange bar above ; antennas brownish except at base : 

 shoulders with black and orange scales ; abdomen white tinged 

 with grey and fulvous; fore legs arid mid tibiae blackish, the pectus, 

 hind legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white. Pore wing grey- 



