376 noctuid^:. 



Sect I. Antennae of male bipectinate with moderate branches. 



A. Fore wing brown with curved white mark in end of cell... lunata. 



B. fore wing whitish with dark mark in submedian interspace 



before postmedial line herbaria. 



*5573. Uncula lunata. (Plate CLX. fig. 5.) 

 Tarache lunata, Lower, Tr. E. Soc. S. Austr. xxvii. p. 32 (1903V 



<5 . Head whitish ; thorax brown mixed with white ; abdomen 

 grey. Fore wing yellowish brown pencilled with raised black 

 scales ; a broad oblique white antemedial band from costa to vein I 

 emitting on outer side a large black-defined tooth in submedian fold ; 

 a downcurved white mark in cell from middle to discocellulars 

 where its upper and lower edges are indented by black points ; a 

 sinuous postmedial white band from vein 3 to inner margin ; 

 a white subterminal band excurved at middle and incurved at 

 submedian fold, with some black points on its inner edge. Hind 

 wing white suffused with brown. 



Hub. S. Australia, L. Mulligan, type t $ in Coll. Lower. Exp. 

 26 millim. 



5574. Uncula herbaria. 



Hiccoda herbaria, Swinh. P. Z. S. 18S6, p. 446; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 306. 



Head and thorax white faintly tinged with olive, the vertex of 

 head, pro- and metathorax with a few black scales : palpi and sides 

 of irons blackish ; antennae with the branches blackish in male, the 

 shaft ringed with black in female ; pectus and legs tinged with 

 brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous 

 brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing whitish faintly 

 tinged with olive-ochreous and with slight dark irroration ; 



Fig. 117. — Uncula herbaria, <$ . |. 



subbasal line repi-esented by a black point on costa, the antemedial 

 line by black points on costa and inner margin; claviform represented 

 bv a black lunule at extremity with a patch of black suffusion from 

 it to postmedial line; orbicular a minute black point; the reniform 

 defined by some black points and a few scales below ; terminal half 

 of costa with alternating blackish and white points; postmedial 

 line very incomplete, formed of black scales, minutely waved, 

 arising at vein 6 and incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line with 

 a blackish bar from costa, then defined by ochreous suffusion on 



