490 NOCTUID.E. 



and with silver at inner margin, bent outwards below costa, in- 

 curved at discal fold, then oblique and minutely waved, angled 

 inwards at submedian fold, some white points beyond it on costa 

 and a white shade from costa to discal fold ; subterniinal line dark 

 brown, exciu'ved at vein 7 and middle and angled inwards below 

 vein 5 and at submedian fold, a black streak before it at discal fold 

 and bronze-]>rowii shades beyond it from costa to discal fold and at 

 middle, detined on outer side by a slight white line before termen ; 

 a line dark brown terminal line dilated into a small spot at middle ; 

 a tine white line at base of cilia. Hind wingr Avhitish suffused 

 Avith golden brown, the terminal area darker; cilia white with a 

 series of brown striie near base at the veins ; the underside white 

 tinged with red-broAvn, the costal area iiTorated wdth red-brown, 

 the terminal area suffused A\ith brown, a slight brown discoidal 

 lunule. 



Ab. 1. secundaria. Fore wing with the stigma forming a 

 bilobate mark. 



Hah. QuEEySLA^"D {Hir/lett), 1 $, Brisbane {Turner'), 2 §, 

 Moreton Bay {Difjgles), 8 5 ; N. Austhalta, Alexandria (Stalker), 

 2 d"; W. Australia, Sherlock K. {Clements), 1 d, 1 ?, Cossack 

 (J. J. Walker), 2 6,1 $ , Swan 11. (Ricltardson), 1 $ ; N. S. 

 Wales, Sydney {Lambert, Hai/nor), 1 c? , 4 §, Broken Hill 

 {Lower), 1 $ ; Victoria, Grisborne {Lyell), 1 c? ; S. Australia, 

 Adelaide {Wilson), 2 J , 2 2 "tvpe secundaria; Tasmania, 

 Hobart {A. J. Smith, J. J. Walker), 2 $ , Ulverstone {Lyell), 1 J . 

 Ex_p. 34-40 millim. 



8317. Phytometra calceolaris. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 23.) 



Pliisia calceolaris, Wlk. xii. 915 (1857). 



6 . Head and thorax grey-brown ; abdomen grey tinged with 

 brown, the ventral surface grey-brown. Fore wing purplish grey 

 mostly suffused with cupreous brown, the medial area deep chocolate- 

 brown below the cell and beyond inner half of the antemedial line ; 

 subbasal line slight, greyish, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line slight, grey, hardly traceable to median nervm-e, then 

 inwardly oblique ; an oblique silvery Y-shaped mark below the 

 cell, its tail dilated into an elliptical knob ; renifonn with slight 

 l)ale outline, strongly constricted at middle, with black-brown 

 marks in its upper and lower extremities and its inner side defined 

 by a silvery striga below ; postmedial line very indistinct, pale 

 faintly defined on each side by brown, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 5, then incurved to lower angle of cell and erect 

 to inner margin, some whitish ]X)ints beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line slight and incurved from costa to vein 7 where it is 

 met by an ol)li(jue dark chocolate-brown shade from apex, then 

 defined on inner side by chocolate-brown suff'usion, excm-ved below 

 vein 7, bent inwards at vein 5 and sinuous to tornus ; a slight 

 sinuous pale line before termen from apex to vein 4. Hind wing 



