426 



NOCT0IDJ?, 



the interspaces of terminal area streaked with fiery red ; subbasal 

 line represented by a slight black spot on costa ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, minutely dentate, angled outwards in submedian fold ; 

 claviform absent ; orbicular a black point ; reniform represented 

 by fiery red marks before and beyond the black discoidal line ; a 

 sinuous black line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; post- 

 medial line very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct 

 dentate subterminal dark line angled outwards below veins 7 and 

 4 ; a fine waved black terminal line ; cilia fiery red mixed with 

 blackish. Hind wing uniform reddish, brown ; cilia reddish at 

 base ; the underside greyish irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal 

 spot and terminal series of lunulas. 



Hah. Queensland, Adayale, typef S in Coll. Turner. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



Genus DYSMILICHIA. 



Type. 

 Phalacra, Staud. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 668 (1892), nee Wlk. Lep. 



18()6 gemella. 



Mllichia, Suell. Tijd. v. Ent. xli. p. 194 (1898), nee Mieg. Dipt. 



183(3 gemella. 



Di/smilichia, Speiser, Berl. ent. Zeit. xlvii. p. 140 (1902) gemella. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, short, fringed with hair in front ; 

 frons with truncate conical prominence with raised edges and corneous plate 

 below it; eyes large, rounded; antennae of male typically ciliated; build 

 slender ; thorax clothed chieily with scales and without crests ; tibise moderately 

 fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing short and broad, the 

 apex rounded, the teruien evenly curved and non-crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole ; II from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennas of male sei-rate. 



*4112. Dysmilichia rufalis. 



Protagrotis rufalis, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 191 (1906). 



fS . Head and thorax fiery red mixed with some brown; vertex 

 of thorax brown ; palpi with some brown at side of 2nd joint ; 

 hinder part of pectus and mid and hind legs mostly whitish ; 

 abdomen whitish tinged with rufous, especially towards base of 

 dorsum. Fore wing orange-red irrorated with fiery red to post- 

 medial line, some brown on inner margin except at base, the 

 terminal area brown with a greyish tinge and slightly irrorated 

 with fiery red; subbasal line brown, extending to inner margin 

 and bent outwards at vein 1 ; antemedial line double tilled in with 

 orange, slightly incurved in cell, then excurved ; claviform absent ; 

 orbicular orange-rod defined by black, small, round ; reniform 

 orange-red defined by black on inner side, faintly defined on outer 



