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NOCTUIDiE. 



pale rufous on inner half ; subbasal line represented by small black 

 spots on costa and below cell ; antemedial line blue-black, oblique 

 from costa to median nervure beyoud the fovea, then retracted, 

 angled outwards in submedian fold and above inner margin and 

 inwards on vein 1 ; claviform and orbicular absent ; reniform with 

 plight white annulus, narrow, constricted at middle and produced 

 at lower extremity ; a slightly sinuous and rather diffused medial 

 black line, oblique from costa to the reniform and approximated 

 below the cell to the postmedial line, which is blue-black with a 

 faint line beyond it and filled in with greyish, bent outwards below 

 costa, slightly incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4, 





Fig. 129. — Amyna apicalis, <3 . T . 



some white points beyond it on costa ; a rounded yellowish white 

 patch on costa just before apex, enclosing a small dark spot on 

 costa ; subterminal line absent ; a terminal series of black striae 

 and white points at base of cilia ; some rufous on termen above 

 tornus. Hind wing fuscous brown, the costal area yellowish white 

 to beyond middle; a terminal series of black striae and a small 

 yellowish white mark on termen towards tornus ; cilia with a fine 

 pale line at base; the underside yellowish suffused and irrorated 

 with red-brown, a slight discoidal bar and faint crenulate post- 

 medial line with dark points at the veins. 



Bab. Queensland, Moreton JBay (Diggle), 3 <S type. Exp. 30- 

 32 millim. 



B. Fore wing of male with the fovea overhung on underside by a much 

 smaller scale-fan from subcostal nervure. 

 a. {Pteratholix). Fore wing with the apes produced, the termen excised 

 below apex and excurved at middle. 



5703. Amyna bullula. 



Tteretholix bullula, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 299 (1873) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 244. 

 Chytoryza tecta, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 338 (part.), nee Grote. 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; palpi blackish at 

 sides and white in front ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey- 

 brown with the dorsal crests blackish. Fore wing cupreous red 

 with slight dark irroration, the base, costal half, and terminal area 



