GEAMMODES. 21 



middle to submedian fold ; a waved black terminal line witb wbite 

 lunulas before it from apex to vein 5 and an oblique bar from 

 vein 2 to submedian fold ; cilia brown, white towards apex and at 

 submedian fold. Underside of fore Aving grey-brown, a white post- 

 medial band from below costa to inner margin, its inner edo-e 

 slightly incurved at discal fold ; hind wing pale brown with slio-ht 

 dark medial and postmedial lines with black spots on them at discal 

 fold and white marks beyond them at discal and submedian folds, 

 a broad blackish subterminal shade. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial band bright yellow. 



Hab. Celebes, Patinoean {Cockayne), 1 5 ; Queenslais^d, 

 Duaringa, 1 6 co-tj'-pe, Brisbane {Turner), 1 S- JExp 46-56 

 millim. 



7785. Grammodes qusesita. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 14.) 

 Grammodes qncesita, Swiiih. A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 132 (1901). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; abdomen pale grey- 

 brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish tinged 

 with brown. Fore wing grey thickly irrorated with brown ; a 

 large triangular black-brown patch from middle of cell to inner 

 margin before an erect white medial band from below subcostal 

 nervure to inner margin ; the outer part of medial area black-brown 

 except towards costa ; a slight cmwed blackish postmedial line from 

 costa to inner margin defined on outer side by a ^^ellowish white 

 line except towards costa, followed by a rufous band Avith dentate 

 black marks on its outer edge at veins 4, 3, a point at vein 2, and 

 triangular mark at iimer margin ; a dark brown apical patch with 

 curved black mark on the lower part of its outer edge to the outer 

 edge of the postmedial band ; the terminal area with some blue- 

 white suffusion except towards apex ; some dark brown at middle 

 of termen and a line terminal black line. Hind wing brown, the 

 terminal area suffused with fuscous ; an oblique white band from 

 middle of costa to above inner margin towards tornus ; some whitish 

 suffusion on terminal area above and below middle ; cilia white at 

 tips except at middle and tornus. Underside of fore wing grey 

 suffused and irrorated with brown, a whitish postmedial band from 

 below costa to inner margin ; hind wing whitish irrorated with 

 brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, a dark discoiclal point 

 and faint postmedial line defined on outer side by whitish except 

 towards costa. 



Hind tibiae with a single spine between the mid and hind spurs. 



Hah. N. Australia, Port Darwin {Bucldand), 1 5 ; Queens- 

 land, Duaringa, 1 c? , 1 $ type. Ewp. 26-28 millim. 



7786. Grammodes stolida. 



Noctua stolida, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 599 (1775) ; Godt. Lep. Fr. v. p. 117, 

 pi. 53. f. 5 ; Hmpsii. Moths Ind. ii. p. 632 ; John. Hor. Soc. Eut. Eoss. 

 xxxix. p. 622, pi. xviii. f. 5 c, & xxi. f. 26 ; Stand. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 244. 



Kocliia dvgidaris, Hiibu. Eur. Schmett., Nocfc. fi'. 352, 512 (ISOS). 



