70 NOCTUIDH, 
ventral surface white mixed with brown and fascous towards 
extremity. Fore wing fuscous brown mixed with grey and with 
a faint bluish gloss; subbasal line indistinctly double, minutely 
waved, from costa to vein 1; two double minutely wared antemedial 
lines ; orbicular and reniform with slight whitish annuli defined by 
black, the former minute, round, the latter narrow, oblique ; medial 
line arising at upper extremity of reniform, at vein 4 bent inwards 
to lower edge of reniform, then oblique and sinuous ; postmedial line 
Fig, 26.—DPatela conspicienda, g. }- 
double, slightly bent outwards below costa, then slightly waved, 
ineuryed below vein 4, another double waved line beyond it, incurved 
below vein 3; an indistinct waved whitish subterminal line, some- 
times with slight black streaks beyond it above and below vein 5; 
a terminal series of slight black lunules and fine pale line at base 
of cilia. Hind wing hyaline white, the terminal area suffused with 
fuseous brown and the veins streaked with fuscous from jast beyond 
the cell; some white strie on vein 2 towards extremity ; cilia white 
with a blackish line through them; the underside with the costal 
and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a double postmedial series 
of minute black streaks on the veins. 
Hab. Criesrs ; Qurenstanp, Brisbane (Zurner), 1 g, 2 9, 
Moreton Bay (Gibbons, Diggles),2 2 type; N. Avsirarsa, Adelaide 
R. (J. J. Walker), 1 6, Roebuck Bay (J. J. Walker), 2 9, Port 
Darwin (Buckland), 1 3, Alexandria (Stalker), 1 3; W. AvsrraLia, 
Sherlock R. (Clements), 5 2, Derby (Lower), 1 9. Hap. 24- 
34 millim. 
Genus PHLEGETONIA. - 
5 Type. 
Philegetonia, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 301 (1852) ...1......00..-coeeneree ceeds 
hargalia, NV Wks. JOO7; (US5'1) Ser. c-neeceereeer eee teat delatrix. 
rgasea, Wik xv LfSOW1SDS) cc cnces ccenceeseeee Lae eeeeee bifascies, 
Colpocheilopterya, Wligrn. Svensk, Akad. Handl. v. 4, p- 60 
GUS OD) ie avesek Stes wev'es cvecsinsnicereseaeQetenmes nese cea st mee eee ete operatria, 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to middle 
of frons and broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth, with tuft of 
scales ; eyes large, round; antennz of male typically serrate and fasciculate ; 
thorax clothed with seales and hair mixed and without distinct crests; tibia 
moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with some ridges of hair at base, but 
without crests and with slight paired anal tufts of hair. Fore wing with the 
apex rounded, the termen crenulate, oblique or excised below vein 3; veins 3 
and from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing 
with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell less than 
halt the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from above 
angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
