278 noctuitke. 



5418. Hyposada hydrocampata. (Plate CLYII. fig. 1.) 



I'hihalapteryx hydrocampata, Guen. Ur. &Phal. ii. p. 438 (1857). 



Acidalia poslicaria, Wlk. xxxv. 1633. 



Arasada f rater ctdata, Moore. Lep. Atk. p. 290 (1888). 



Omza pallescens, Hmpsn. Moths Iud. ii. p. 350 (1894). 



Acidalia partita, Lucas, Pr. E. Soc. Queensland, xv. p. 141 (1900). 



Head and tegulse fuscous brown mixed with some whitish; 

 thorax whitish tinged with purplish rufous behind ; abdomen 

 ochrcous tinged with rufous, the terminal segments with dark bands 

 and white segmental lines ; pectus and ventral surface of abdonuu 

 whitish, the legs tinged with brown. Fore wing ochreous mostly 

 suffused with purplish rufous and slightly irrorated with black, the 

 costal area pale slightly irrorated with rufous, narrowing to a point 

 before apex ; antemedial line pale defined on each side by purplish 

 rufous, waved, inwardly oblique, from subcostal nervure to inner 

 margin ; a white point defined by purplish at lower angle of cell ; 

 postmedial line pale defined on each side by purplish rufous, waved, 

 arising below costa and very oblique to inner margin near ante- 

 medial line ; subterminal line pale, defined on inner side by purplish 

 rufous and with series of blackish spots on its outer edice, angled 

 outwards at vein 4, then oblique ; an oblique blackish streak from 

 apex ; a terminal series of slight black lunules. Hind wing 

 ochreous mostly suffused with purplish rufous and irrorated with 

 black ; a slight blackish discoidal point ; postmedial line yellowish 

 slightly defined on inner side by black with purplish rufous suffusion 

 before it, on outer side slightly defined by rufous, oblique, straight ; 

 a subterminal series of yellowish lunules defined on inner side by 

 purplish rufous and on outer by a series of hlackish spots, angled 

 outwards at vein 6 ; a terminal series of blackish striae ; cilia with 

 a fine black line through them ; the underside creamy white 

 irrorated with brown, a diffused oblique brownish postmedial line 

 and whitish subterminal line defined on each side by brown 

 suffusion. 



Hub. Sierra Leone (Clements), 1 3 ; Br. Centr. Africa, Katungas 

 (de Jersey), 1 tf ; Bengal, Calcutta, type f fraterculat 'a in Mus. 

 Berlin, 1 $ type pallescens ; Singapore (Ridley), 1 $; Queensland, 

 Moreton Bay (Diggles), 1 $ type poslicaria, Brisbane (Turner), 

 1 2 • Exp. 18-26 millim. 



5419. Hyposada juncturalis. (Plate CLVII. fig. 2.) 



Eirula jimcturalis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1156 (1865). 



Head and teguloe brown mixed with some ochreous ; thorax and 

 abdomen pale ochi'eous, the latter with black subdorsal points on 

 2nd segment, the terminal segments suffused with brown and 

 irrorated with black ; legs tinged with brown ; ventral surface of 



