624 NOCTUIDiE. 



5944. Eulocastra fasciata. 



Eulocastra fasciata, Butl. Trans. Eut. Soc. 1886, p. 419. pi. x. f, 6. 



Head and base of tegulte orange-yellow ; palpi blackish behind ; 

 antenna? blackish ringed with yellow : thorax gloss} 7 black-brown 

 slightly mixed with yellow ; pectus and legs yellow, the fore tibiae 

 and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen yellowish white. Foro 

 wing yellowish white ; the basal area glossy black-brown with a 



Fig. 166. —Eulocastra fasciata, rf . 



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patch of yellowish white at base of inner margin and a subba^al 

 striga from costa ; a black-brown medial band, its inner edge 

 waved, its outer excurved at lower angle of cell ; a subtermina 

 black -brown band, slightly angled inwards at discal fold and 

 narrowing to tornus ; black- brown patches on termen and cilia 

 at middle and above tornus, Hind wing yellowish white, the 

 underside with a black-brown patch at middle of costa and bar 

 from costa before apex. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial band obsolete on costal area 

 and separated from a black discoidal spot. 



Hob. N. Atjstealia, Port Darwin (Buckland), 1 § ; Queensland, 

 Brisbane (Turner), 2 tf , 2 $ ; N. S. Wales, Sydney, 1 J type. 

 Exp. 18-20 millim. 



5945. Eulocastra quintana. 



Acontia quintana, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 455, pi. 27. f. 13 ; Hrupsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 318. 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with brown, the head tinged 

 with ochreous ; pectus and legs ochreous white, the fore tibiae and 

 tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen white with indistinct 

 brownish dorsal bands. Fore wing Avhite, the basal area suffused 

 with purple-grey, a tuft of raised rufous scales below base of cell, 

 its outer edge sinuous with tufts of raised black scales below costa 

 and cell and above inner margin ; antemedial line purplish, double, 

 erect, waved, with two blackish points on it at costa and a point 

 on its outer edge in cell ; medial area purplish grey with a black 

 spot in end of cell defined by white on outer side ; a sinuous 

 rufous medial line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line 



