16 NOCTUIDiE. 



terminal line with some ochreous white before it above and beloAv 

 middle ; cilia white, black-brown at apex, middle, and towards 

 tornus. Underside of fore wing brownish white to the oblique 

 Avhite antemedial band, a curved white postmedial band ; hind wing 

 with the basal half white, the basal area irrorated with brown, 

 obliquely curved black-brown medial and postmedial lines, the latter 

 wdth some white beyond it on inner area. 



Hah. Celebes ; Be. N. Guinea, Port Moresby, Id", 3 5 , 

 New Hebeides (Ilatheio), 1 $ ; N. Austealia, Baudin I. (J. J. 

 Walker), 2 c?, 3 ?, Adelaide E. (J. J. Walker), 1 6, Port 

 Darwin {BucMand, J. J. Walker), 4 c?, 1 5; Queensland, 

 Townsville (Dodd), 1 5, Cooktown (de la Garde), 1 c? , Brisbane 

 {Lucas, Turner), 2 c? , 2 ? ; N. S.Wales, Sydney {Biggies), 1 S 

 type ; Friendly Is., Vavau {JEclipse Exp.), 1 5 ; Cook's Is., 

 Aitutaki I. {J. J. Walker), 1 S ■ E^vp. 34-44 millim. 



7779. Gramniodes pulcherrima. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 7.) 



Grammodes indcherrhna, Lucas, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) vii. p. 258 



(1892). 

 Grammodes dementi, Swinli. A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 133 (1901). 



Head and thorax grey-brown ; palpi, pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 wdiitish tinged with brown. Fore mng fuscous brown tinged with 

 grey ; an oblique white band from costa before middle to inner 

 margin beyond middle ; a white point at upper angle of cell and 

 minute spot above lower angle ; an oblique white band from costa 

 beyond middle to below vein 3 towards termen, then incurved, 

 narrow, and ending at vein 1 ; an oblique white bar from costa 

 towards apex ; an incurved whitish line from before termen below 

 apex to beyond the angle of the postmedial band, then diffused and 

 enclosing a round black spot in submedian interspace with slight 

 white sti'eak above it ; cilia with wdiitish line at base and w^hitish 

 tips. Hind wing fuscous brow^n tinged with grey ; an obliquely 

 curved white band from middle of costa to above tornus towards 

 which it naiTOws ; some whitish before termen above and below 

 middle, where there is a blackish mark ; cilia white with a brown 

 patch at middle. Underside of fore wing with the basal half white, 

 an oblique whitish medial shade, a postmedial white band obliquely 

 excurved to vein 3, then incurved, a curved white mark from costa 

 before apex to vein 6 ; hind wing white, the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous brown, an obliquely cm-ved blackish antemedial line, 

 curved postmedial line with series of small white spots beyond it, 

 and bar from costa towards apex to vein 6. 



Hind tibiae usually with a single spine between the mid and hind 

 spurs. 



Hah. Queensland, Brisbane {Lucas, Timer), 3 5;^- Aus- 

 tralia, Alexandria {Stalker), 2 c? , 1 $ ; W. Austealia, Sher- 

 lock R. {Clements), 1 c? , 4 $ . Miy. 28-34 millim. 



