590 NOCTUID®. 
curved antemedial line, of a waved medial line excurved below 
costa, and of a postmedial line excuryed below costa and at middle ; 
Fig. 233.—Acachmena wnocrossa, 9. }. 
traces of a subterminal series of dark points; cilia deep blood-red. 
Hind wing whitish tinged with brown. 
Hab, Qurenstanp, Kuranda (Dodd), type + 2 in Coll. Turner. 
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Exp. 20 millim. 
Genus ACRIPIA. me 
Type. 
Acripia, W1k. xxvii. 9 (1863) .........c.ccneceneeeerreecnscnesenssertes sulolivacea. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 
of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth, with tuft of 
hair above; eyes large, round; antenne of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with 
hair and seales mixed, the tegule produced to a slight dorsal ridge, the pro- 
thorax with triangular ridge-like crest; tibiw slightly fringed with hair; 
abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing short and broad, the costa 
highly arched near base, the apex produced and acute, the termen excised 
below apex and towards tornus and excurved at middle; veins 3 and 5 from 
near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 
form a long areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of 
cell; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anas- 
tomosing with the cell near base only. 
A. Fore wing with the apical area not tinged with green. 
a. Thorax and base and medial area of fore wing dark red- 
brown aw ottlediwithnmlous eescemecetes serene eee aeeeeeere scapularis. 
}. Thorax and base and medial area of fore wing brownish- 
BUY ao ins o> <siengates Russ Be e's oe Ne oe ee subolivacea. 
B. Fore wing with the apical area tinged with green. 
ao Merulse fulyous med ae. o.cscsnscoenecsotecr etree cee Een erase .. leprosa. 
6. Tegulee fuscous edged with white ...............sccccneeeeeees . chloropera. 
C. Fore wing uniform olive-green ............ccccsesceneecsseeeeeeees semiviridis, 
*7003. Acripia scapularis. 
Plastenis scapularis, Feld. Reis. Noy. pl. 111. f. 10 (1874). 
9. Head grey mixed with brown; thorax rufous mixed with 
red-brown; palpi white at base; pectus white: legs whitish 
mixed with brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen 
grey-brown, the ventral surface whitish mixed with red-brown. 
Fore wing brownish grey slightly irrorated and striated with 
brown; a red-brown patch at base from costa to vein 1; the 
medial area suffused with rufous and with numerous striz of black- 
brown scales, its inner edge angled outwards at subcostal and 
