Mocis. 95 



7.%2. Mocis alterna. (Plate CCXXITT. fig. 2-4.) 



Eiiclidia alferva, Wlk. xv. 1833 (1858). 



Pseudophia nehuUgera, Bull. Trans. Eiit. Soc. 18SG, p. 413. 



S- Head and . tliorax pale grey mixed witli l)ro\vn ; ])eotus and 

 legs whitish tinged with rufous, tlie fore and mid tibiie and tarsi 

 suffused with broMTi ; abdomen whitish dorsally irrorated \\ith 

 brown. Fore AA'ing whitish iiTorated with brown ; subbasal line 

 black-brown, sliglitly excurved below costa and ending at submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line strong, black-brown defined on inner side by 

 white, oblique and slightly sinuous ; an indistinct sinuous brown 

 medial line ; reniform defined by brown and with bifid black patcli 

 beyond it before tlie postmedial line, which is dark brown defined on 

 outer side by white, bent outwards below costa, bent inwards at 

 vein 6 and angled inwards at discal fold, tlien slightly sinuous to 

 vein 2 where it is sharply curved upwards to lower edge of reniform 

 and down to submedian fold, then again excurved ; two white points 

 on costa on the prominent reddish brown shade before the minutely 

 waved white subterminal line ; the termen tinged with brown at 

 middle ; a fine waved dark terminal line ; cilia whitish tinged with 

 brown. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with dark brown ; a rather diffused slightly sinuous dark 

 })0stmedial line ; a wliiti.sh subterminal h'nc ; a blackish jwtch at 

 middle of termen witli some whitish above and below it ; a waved 

 blacki.sh terminal line ; cilia white tinged with brown at middle. 

 Underside of both wings white tinged witli rufous on basal half, 

 slight black disco idal lunules, dark postmedial Imes excurved below 

 costa, diffused subterminal lines exciu'ved below costa and some dark 

 suffusion at apex and middle of terminal areas. 



§ . Much more viniformly suffused with bi-own ; fore wing Avith 

 the ante- and postmedial lines slight but prominently defined by 

 white, no black patch beyond the reniform or dark shade before the 

 subterminal line. 



Ab. 1. 5 nehvligpya. Fore wing paler grey-brown. 



Hah. Br. N. Gvixea, Sogeri, 1 6 , Port Moresby, 1 c? ; N. 

 Australia {Elsey),\ d type. Port Darwin {Bticl'lancl), ^ S, 

 1 2 ; Alexandria {Stalker)^ 2 6,1 $ ; W. Australia, Sherlock 

 II. {Clements), 2^,1$; Queensland, Peak Downs, 1 $ type 

 nchiiligem^ Brisbane {Turner), 1 d , 1 $. l^.rp. 82-4'2 mil 



nm. 



7863. Mocis dolosa. 



TIecoj>tera dolosa, Biitl. P. Z. S. 1.^80, n. 078. 



J?emi(/ia xigrisujna, Leecli, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 053, pi. lii. f. 3. 



6 . Head and thorax pale grey mixed with broA\Ti ; pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen whitish suft'u.sed with brown. Fore wing pale grey 

 tinged and tln'ckly irrorated with i-eddisli brown ; a slight sinuous 

 black .subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 red-brown defined on inner side bv whitish, slightly excurved below 



