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NOCTUID.E. 



a fine crenulate red-brown terminal line with dark points at the 

 interspaces ; cilia with a fine white line at base ; the underside 

 whitish suffused with red, a dark discoidal lunule and curved post- 

 medial line. 



llah. N. S. Wales (Wood), 1 d • Exp. 32 millim. 



Genus HYPOBLETA. 

 Hypobleta, Turner, Tr. E. Soc. S. Austr. xxxii. p. 77 (1908) 



Type. 



cymcea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, slender, the 2nd joint 

 extending about one and a half times length of head and fringed with hair 

 above at extremity, the 3rd joint short ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennae of male annulate ; head and thorax clothed with scales and without 

 crests ; fore coxa 1 with tufts of long hair ; fore and hind tibire with tufts of 

 hair at extremity, hind tibia? with slight fringe of hair below before the medial 

 spurs ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing triangular, the 

 apex somewhat acute, the termen crenulate; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 

 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with the termen crenulate; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 from above 

 angle ; 0, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



*5389. Hypobleta cymsea. 



Hypobleta cymcea, Turner, Tr. R. Soc. S. Austr. xxxii. p. 78 (1908). 



J . Head and thorax ochreous white ; palpi black at sides ; the 

 hair on fore coxae and fore and mid tibiae fuscous ; abdomen 

 ochreous white with fuscous dorsal bands at middle and dorsal 

 spots on terminal segments. Fore wing ochreous white irrorated 

 with brown and black ; a black point in middle of cell and slight 



Fig. 72.— Hypobleta cymtsa, J. |. 



discoidal lunule ; an indistinct double postmedial line, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then dentate, incurved at discal fold and strongly 

 below vein 4 ; subterminal line whitish defined on outer side by 

 blackish dentate marks and with some blackish on each side of it 

 below submedian fold, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, inwards 

 at discal fold and incurved in submedian fold ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing ochreous white slightly irrorated with 

 brown and black ; a black discoidal point and faint slightly waved 



