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7862. Mocis alterna. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 24.) 



Euclidia alferna, Wlk. xv. 1833 (1858). 



PseudopMa nebidigera, Bull. Trans. Eut. Soc. 1886, p. 413. 



6 . Head and thorax pale grey mixed with brown ; pectus and 

 leg.s whitish tinged with rufous, the fore and mid tibiae and tarsi 

 suffused with brown ; abdomen whitish dorsally irrorated with 

 brown. Fore wing whitish irrorated with brown ; subbasal line 

 black-brown, slightly excurved below costa and ending at submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line strong, black-brown defined on inner side by 

 white, oblique and slightly sinuous ; an indistinct sinuous brown 

 medial line ; reniform defined by brown and with bifid black patch 

 beyond it before the postmedial line, which is dark brown defined on 

 outer side by white, bent outwards below costa, bent inwards at 

 vein 6 and angled inwards at discal fold, then slightly sinuous to 

 vein 2 where it is sharply curved upwards to lower edge of reniform 

 and down to submedian fold, then agam excurved ; two white pomts 

 on costa on the prominent reddish brown shade before the minutely 

 waved white subterminal line ; the termen tinged with brown at 

 middle ; a tine waved dark terminal line ; cilia whitish tinged with 

 brown. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with dark brown ; a rather diffused slightly sinuoiis dark 

 postmedial line ; a whitish subterminal line ; a blackish patch at 

 middle of termen with some whitish above and below it ; a waved 

 blackish terminal line ; cilia white tinged with brown at middle. 

 Underside of both wings white tinged with rufous on basal half, 

 slight black discoidal lunules, dark postmedial lines excurved below 

 costa, diffused subterminal lines exctu-ved below costa and some dark 

 suffusion at apex and middle of terminal areas. 



$ . Much more iiniformly suffused with brown ; fore wing with 

 the ante- and postmedial lines slight but prominently defined by 

 white, no black patch beyond the renifoi-m or dark shade befoi'e the 

 subterminal line. 



Ab. 1. 5 nehuligera. Fore wing paler grey-brown. 



Hah. Br. N. GtItinea, Sogeri, 1 S , Port Moresby, 1 J ; N. 

 Australia {Elsey), 1 S type, Port Darwin (Biickland), 3 6, 

 1 $ ; Alexandria (Stalker), 2 j , 1 $ ; W. Australia, Sherlock 

 E. (Clements), 2 c? , 1 $ ; Queensland, Peak Downs, 1 $ tj])e 

 nehuligera, Brisbane (Turner), 1 6,1 $ . Exp. 32-42 millim. 



7863. Mocis dolosa. 



Plecoptera dolosa, Btitl. P. Z. S. 1S80, «. 678. 



Eemigia 7iigrisigna, Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 553, pi. lii. f. 3. 



6 . Head and thorax pale grey mixed with brown ; pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen whitish suffused with brown. Fore wing pale grey 

 tinged and thickly irrorated with reddish brown ; a slight sinuous 

 black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 red-brown defined on inner side by whitish, slightly excurved below 



