350 NOCTUID®. 
6660. Gadirtha poliochroa, n. sp. (Plate CLX XXIII. fig. 9.) 
2. Head and thorax grey, the tegule and patagia with patches 
of purple-brown; fore tibize with brown spots, the tarsi banded 
with brown; abdomen whitish, dorsally suffused with brown, the 
crests black at tips. Fore wing grey-white mostly suffused with 
purple-brown leaving the inner area and an apical patch grey- 
white; two subbasal dark strive from costa; antemedial line 
indistinct, double, minutely waved, an angled white mark before 
it from costa and a blackish spot defined by whitish in the cell ; 
a bar-shaped tuft of raised scales in middle of cell: a large, round 
discoidal annulus defined by brown and with tuft of brown scales 
in centre; postmedial line brown, bent outwards below costa, and 
Lelow vein 2 with a series of three steps to inner margin near 
antemedial line, the steps marked by bars of raised scales ; 
subterminal line whitish, dentate, with tufts of raised rufous 
scales on its inner side except towards costa; a terminal series 
of rufous lunules formed of raised scales. Hind wing whitish 
suffused with brown, the terminal area darker; cilia brownish 
white; the underside whitish with the costal and terminal areas 
suffused with brown. 
Ab. 1. Thorax with hardly a trace of purple-brown; fore wing 
grey-white with a patch of purple-brown suffusion on antemedial 
costal area. 
Hab, Qurenstand, Brisbane (Turner), 2 9 type. Exp. 30-40 
millim, 
Genus CASANDRIA. 
Type. 
Gasandriaa Willi xis GOG (ISDS) meccuesteesec cence cen tcat oe tee tne enittens. 
Moty a. Wilke xix. 1021s (S59) sees ecssccadessacse nese seer aerestecere abseuzalis. 
Psst Grose: Caneebimbtaxve) peels tl @LOea) peace eeeeetna setae ee abseuzalis. 
Leianophera, Moschl. Abh. Senck. Ges. xvi. p. 136 (1900)... transfossa. 
Collemena, Méschl. Abh. Senck. Ges. xvi. p. 145 (1900)...... elota, 
Pleurasympieza, Mosch), Abh. Senck. Ges. xvi. p. 146 (1900) adseuzalis. 
Neostictoptera, Druce, A. M. N, H. (7) v. p. 519 (1900) ...... nigropuneta. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 
vertex of head and slightly fringed with hair above towards extremity, the 
srd_ short, porrect ; frons sinooth ; eyes large, round; antenne of male 
typically ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without 
crests; fore tibie fringed with long hair, the mid tibize moderately fringed 
with hair, the hind tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen with slight crests on 
medial segments, slight lateral tults of scales and the anal tuft large in male, 
Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly 
curved and not crenulate : veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from 
upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long narrow areole; 
11 from cell ; the retinaculum a corneonus bar curled Bra the frenulum. 
Hind wing with vein 3 from just before angle of cell; 4,5 from angle or 
shortly stalked ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 “anastomosing with the cell to 
middle. 
