424 Some Netv Forms of hid o- Australian Noctuidae 



formation of the last tarsal joint appears to differ slightly in the two 

 subspecies. 



Seven 3 3 and one 2 belong to the name-typical form. The 

 majority of 3 3 are brown or blackish-brown ; the markings indistinct 

 with the exception of the dark reniform spot and a white postmedial 

 bar on costa and (in nine specimens) a rufous patch crossing the post- 

 medial line near costa ; three or four 3 3 have traces of a rufous patch 

 on hindmargin from near base to postmedial line. 



All but three of the 2 2 show a more or less strongly-developed 

 white band (sometimes shaded with greenish or ochraceous) proximally 

 to postmedial line ; in some specimens this band reaches to the ante- 

 medial line except for some dark shading at costa. 



Central West Buru : Gamoe 'Mrapat, 5,000 feet ; March- April, 

 1922, eighteen 3 3 , twenty-three 2 2 ; Central Buru : Kako Tagalago, 

 2,700 feet, May, 1922, fifteen 3 3 , one 2 . 



17. Lasiopoderes pratti, Beth.-Bak. 2 (pi. XXII, fig. 5). 

 Lasiopoderes pratti, Beth.-Bak., Nov. ZooL, xiii, 263, 1906, 3 . 

 2 , 50—53 mm. 



Legs normal. Hind wing unusually small in comparison with the 

 fore wing but of normal shape and without the mass of flocculent 

 scales which occupies the larger part of the underside in the 3 . Fore 

 wing with the hindmargin straight, the termen strongly excurved 

 and rather oblique but much less oblique than in the 3 . Palpus in 

 both 3 and 2 upcurved, with the third segment about half the length 

 of second, not dilated at extremity. 



Fore wing unicolorous grey or greyish-brown, except in one aber- 

 ration, which is irrorated with white to the subterminal line, the 

 irroration interrupted here and there by lines of the ground-colour. 

 Markings obsolescent, seeming to agree with the markings of the 3 , 

 the very characteristic, distally-indented subapical pale reddish mark 

 of the 3 a little narrower and a little darker in tone (less outstanding) 

 in the 2 , except in the white irrorated aberration (in which it is 

 speckled with white scales), but having exactly the same proximal 

 curve and distal angle as in the 3 . 



Hind wing unicolorous greyish-brown. 



Underside of both wings brownish-grey (not greyish-white as in 

 the fore wing of 3), with a very faint curved postmedial line 

 traversing both wings, and a slight medial bar at costa of fore wing. 



