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towards tornus ; cilia white. Underside yellow, the terminal areas 

 tinged Avith rufous ; fore wing with black subrerminal band 

 between veins 6 and 2 ; hind wing with black patch from costa to 

 vein 3. 



Ab. 1. Paler. — W. Australia. 



Hah. Be. N. Guinea, Sogeri, 1 S ; Queensland, 1 J , 1 $ , 

 Brisbane {Turner), 1 5 , Moreton Bay (Diggles), 1 § ; Cbnte. 

 Australia, Hermannsburg (Hillier), 1 S ', W. Australia, Sher- 

 lock E. (Clements), 3 c? , 1 $ . Kiy. 60-72 millim. 



Sect. II. AiitemiEe and mid tibitB of male normal; hind wing with souio 

 woolly hair on basal area on underside and slight ridges of hair on the 

 reins beyond the cell. 



A. Hind wing of male on underside with fiinge of hair on 

 Tcin 1. 



a. Abdomen banded with black ; hind wing with black medial 



band coroiiaia. 



b. Abdomen not banded with black ; hind wing with the basal 



area suffused with brown. 



a'. Abdomen yellow hiiuensis. 



h^. Abdomen brown rectilinea. 



7540. Anua coronata. 



Ncciua coronata, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 596 (1775) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. 



p. 158, pi. 167. f. 1, & pi. 166. f. 5; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 502. 

 Koctua leonina, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 596 (1775). 

 Noctua ancilla, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 17 (1794). 

 Corycia viagica, Hiibn. Zutr. Ex. Schniett. iii. p. 32. ff. 535-6 (1827). 

 OpJiiodes pondcrosa, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ix. p. 346 (1879). 



Head and thorax red-brown tinged with grey ; pectus ochreous ; 

 abdomen yellow dorsally banded with black, ventrally tinged with 

 rufous. Fore wing red-brown suffused with purple-grey and 

 slightly irrorated with black; antcmedial line brown, obliquely 

 incurved ; a small brown annulus in middle of cell ; reniforni 

 defined by brown, its annulus represented by small black spots 

 defined by grey, a brownish shade above it on costa ; postmedial 

 line brown, oblique, slightly bent inwards to costa and inner 

 margin ; the postmedial costal area with a brown shade ; sub- 

 terminal line pale defined on each side by brown, oblique and 

 nearly straight ; a series of black points just before termen. Hind 

 wing yellow; an oblique black-brown medial band from costa to 

 eubmedian fold ; a black-brown subterminal band from just below 

 costa to submedian fold, wide towards costa where its outer edge is 

 escurved. Underside yellow, the terminal areas tinged and 

 irrorated with brown except towards tornus ; fore wing with a 

 fuscous subterminal patch between veins 5 and 2. 



Ab. 1. magica. Fore wing witli the reniform filled in with 

 black. 



