606 NOCTUID®. 
conical chocolate-brown patch at middle of submedian interspace 
with purplish grey beyond it, before the very indistinct oblique dark 
postmedial line; the terminal area chocolate-brown with some 
greyish suffusion towards termen and traces of a curved dark 
subterminal line; cilia pale brownish. Hind wing white tinged 
with red-brown, the terminal area suffused with dark brown from 
apex to submedian fold ; cilia pale brownish, white at tips. 
Hab, Quennstanpd, Peak Downs, 1 ¢ type, Townsville (Dodd), 
16,1 9. Exp, 24-26 millim. 
7026. Vestermannia gloriosa, n. sp. (Plate CLXXXIX. fig. 32.) 
Head white ; palpi black behind, the extremity of 2nd joint and 
the 3rd joint irrorated with black; frons with black bars above 
and between antennz, which are brownish except at base; thorax 
white tinged with rufous and with some fuscous at tips of tegulx 
and on pro- and metathorax; pectus and legs white, the latter 
irrorated with fuscous, the fore femora and tibise fuscous on inner 
side ; abdomen white tinged with fuscous dorsally and at extremity, 
the crests pale rufous, the crest on 3rd segment blackish. Fore 
wing cupreous brown with a purplish tinge, suffused with silvery 
white to the postmedial line, the area below vein 1 pale rufous 
slightly irrorated with black to the postmedial line ; a large elliptical 
patch of the ground-eolour defined by white in and beyond end of 
cell, bisected by a fine oblique white discoidal line and only separated 
from a similar but more rounded patch below the cell by a white 
streak on median nervure; postmedial line white, oblique from 
costa to vein 6, excurved to vein 5, then inwardly oblique, angled 
outwards at submedian fold, then incuryed, some purplish white 
suffusion beyond it from costa to vein 4 with slight triangular 
marks defined by white on its outer edge from below costa to vein 
©; the submedian fold and vein 1 slightly streaked with white 
from the postmedial line to the faint curved subterminal line; a 
terminal series of black points. Hind wing pure white, the veins 
towards termen slightly streaked with brown; a cupreous brown 
terminal band narrowing below vein 2; cilia white at tips. 
Hab. Br. N. Gurvea, Babooni (Pratt), 1 3, Ekeikei (Pratt), 
45,1 92 type. vp. 42-46 millim, — 
7927, Vestermannia superba. 
Westermannia superba, Hiibn. Ziitr. Ex. Schmett. p. 23, ff. 328, 324 (1823); 
Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 80, pl. 154. ff. 1, 1a; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 
», B09, 
Plusiodes westermannii, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 8386 (1852), 
Mead pure white ; palpi black behind ; antennae brownish except 
towards base; thorax creamy white; fore femora and tibie brown 
on inner side, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen white, 
dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing purplish white with the 
area below vein 1 creamy white to the postmedial line, the terminal 
