210 N0CTUID.E. 



line white with black point on its inner side at costa, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, then reduced to a series of white points with 

 minute dark points before them, incurved below vein 4, some 

 whitish points beyond it on costa ; a faint minutely waved whitish 

 subterminal line, angled outwards at veins 7 and 4, then incurved ; 

 a series of blackish points with white points before them just before 

 termen .; a terminal series of dark stria? with white points beyond 

 them at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish suffused with rufous 

 and slightly irrorated with black ; a black discoidal point defined 

 by whitish ; postmedial line formed of slight white lunules with 

 dark points before them, somewhat excurved at middle ; a series 

 of blackish points with white points before them just before 

 termen ; a fine dark terminal line with white points beyond it at 

 base of cilia ; the underside white with a faint flesh tinge, a 

 blackish point at lower angle of cell and a series just before termen. 

 Hah. Queensland, Townsville (Dodd), 1 J type. Exp. 

 22 millim. 



I. Fore wing of male normal. 



5323. Cerynea contentaria. 



F.phi/ra contentaria, Wlk. xxii. 639 (1861); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 346. 

 Ckusaris punctilinealis, Wik. xxxiv. 1175 (1865); Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. 

 ix. p. 124, pi. 167. f. 27. 



Head white ; palpi black-brown towards base and irrorated with 

 black-brown towards tips ; antenna? with the incisions of joints 

 blackish on inner side ; thorax and abdomen white tinged with 

 rufous, the latter irrorated with fuscous, the terminal segments 



Fig. 51. — Cerynea contentaria, $ . ?,. 



suffused with fuscous leaving white segmental lines ; fore tibiae 

 blackish in front. Fore wing white suffused with rufous and 

 slightly irrorated with blackish, the costal edge blackish towards 

 base ; a black point in base of cell ; antemedial line double, brown 

 filled in with white and with black point at costa, waved ; a 

 blackish point in middle of cell ; reniform with whitish annulus 

 slightly defined on inner side by brown, strongly constricted at 

 middle and with small black spots in its upper and lower parts ; 

 traces of a sinuous rufous line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line white slightly defined on each side by 





