382 NOCTUIDE. 
apex to vein 2; the underside white, the terminal area black from 
apex to vein 3. 
Hab. Qurrnstanp, Kuranda (Dodd), 1 9 type. Exp. 30 millim. 
*6706. Calathusa stenophylla. (Plate CLXXXIV. fig. 16.) 
Corula stenophylla, Turner, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. 8. W. xxvii. p. 100 (1902). 
3. Head and thorax grey; palpi, antenne, a patch on tegule, and 
metathoracic crest black ; abdomen grey dorsally slightly tinged with 
brown. Fore wing grey; the subbasal line blackish, curved, from 
costa to vein 1, followed by a black-suffused band before the ante- 
medial slightly waved line; a black-suffused medial band with the 
slight tufts of black scales representing the orbicular and reniform on 
it and bounded by the fine black postmedial line, excurved between 
subcostal nervure and vein 3; costa brownish towards apex with 
three black spots on it; a double irregularly waved subterminal 
line, theinner line strong, black with some black suffusion on its inner 
edge; a series of black strize before termen and a fine black terminal 
line. Hind wing white tinged with fuscous; the terminal area 
fuscous narrowing to a point at tornus; the underside pure white 
with terminal black band from costa to vein 2. 
Hab. Qunenstand, Brisbane, type f ¢ in Coll. Turner. Lvp. 
24 millim. 
6707. Calathusa basicunea. 
Calathusa basicunea, Wk. xv. 1645 (1858), 
Sina tenera, Wik. xxxii. 610 (1865). 
Hisbanda acronyctoides, W\k. xxxiv, 1268 (1865). 
Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brown, some blackish 
at tips of tegulee and in pro- and metathoracic crests ; the palpi and 
legs irrorated with purplish red, the tarsi ringed with black; 
abdomen white suffused with purplish red. Fore wing grey-white 
mixed with pale brown and irrorated with black; a very short 
Fig. 145,—Calathusa basicunea, 3. 1. 
black streak at base of median nervure and an oblique subbasal 
black striga from costa ; antemedial line black, oblique, incurved in 
submedian interspace, an olive-brown shade beyond it from costa to 
median nervure ; tufts of raised scales tipped with blackish at middle 
of cell and on discocellulars ; an oblique blackish bar from middle 
of costa and a slight streak on yein 2 before the double postmedial 
