416 NOCTUIDE. 
Hab. Quprxstand, Townsville (Dodd), 2 3, 192 , Brisbane 
(Turner), 19. Exp. 30-36 millim. 
6755. Blenina diagona, n. sp. (Plate CLXXXYV. fig. 13.) 
@. Head and thorax white slightly mixed with fuscous, the 
tegule with black line near tips which are mostly blackish; palpi 
tinged with brown at base, the 2nd and 8rd joints black at sides ; 
pectus and legs tinged with brown, the tibiz with some black, 
the tarsi ringed with black; abdomen white, dorsally tinged 
with brown, the basal crest fiery red. Fore wing white tinged with 
greenish grey ; the basal area greenish except at inner margin with 
some black scales on its outer edge; antemedial line black, very 
oblique to inner margin near postmedial line, shghtly incurved above 
vein 1, a greenish patch beyond it from costa to diseal fold with 
some blackish strize on it and fuscous scales on its edges and 
small tufts of raised black scales in and at end of cell, some fuscous 
suffusion on inner area; two blackish postmedial points on costa 
with some greenish below them, the sinuous postmedial black line 
arising at vein 7 and nearly erect ; & sinuous fuscous subterminal 
line, excurved below vein 5 and with blackish spot on it at sub- 
median fold, some red-brown suffusion beyond it; a black terminal 
line ; cilia brownish white with a series of blackish spots. Hind 
wing whitish suffused with brown, the cilia whiter execpt towards 
apex ; the underside white tinged with ochreous brown, the costal 
area irrorated with red-brown. 
Hab, S. Nigeria, Lesha (Humphrey), 19 type. Exp. 36 millim. 
6756. Blenina squamifera. 
Lophoptera squamifera, Wilgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 171 (1860). 
Acronycta lichenosa, Feld. Reis, Nov. pl. 100. f. 9 (1874). 
Diphthera autumnalis, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 222 (1898). 
Head and thorax white mixed with green ; tegule with black 
band near tips; thorax with three slight black bands; palpi with 
black spots at base of joints; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 
white tinged with brown and with slight pale segmental lines, the 
erests white mixed with green and black. Fore wing white mixed 
with blue-green and some black ; an oblique black striga from base 
of costa; subbasal line black, waved, from costa to vein 1 above 
which there isa small black spot beyond it ; antemedial line oblique, 
waved; a small tuft of black scales towards end of cell and two 
discoidal tufts; postmedial line black defined on outer side by 
white, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, slightly incurved 
at diseal fold, incurved below vein 4, a deeper green line beyond it, 
some black points on costa and a short black streak in submedian 
fold ; subterminal line black, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved 
at middle and dentate at veins 4,3; a black patch at apex and 
spot below yein 7; cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing 
semihyaline white, the terminal area suffused with fuscous brown 
narrowing to a point at vein 1. 
