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NOCTtriDJR, 



inner area and terminal area, except towards apex, rather grej'cr ; 

 snlibasal line represented hy a blackish bar from costa and brown 

 patch below the cell ; a round blackish patch in and below cell 

 before the antemedial line, which is double, strongly excurved from 

 below costa and with ridge of raised scales on the outer line below 

 the cell ; double oblique blackish strife from middle of costa ; a 

 tuft of raised scales at lower angle of cell ; postmedial costal area 

 suffused with black ; postmedial line indistinct, double, filled in 

 with grey, excurved below costa, then oblique ; a subterminal series 

 of small black spots with larger spot in submedian fold ; a fine 

 black terminal line with black points in the interspaces. Hind 

 wing grey sutFiised with fuscous ; cilia whitish tinged with ochreous 

 brown ; the underside paler, the costal area tinged with ochreous 

 brown. 



ITah. QuR'RNSLAND, Kuranda (Dodd), type t 2 i" Coll. Turner. 

 F.vp. 22 millim. 



Genus GIAURA. 



Type. 



Giaura, Wlk. xxviii. 434 (1P63) , rephtavn. 



Orosa, Wlk. xxxiv. 1222 (1865) tortricoides. 



Proboscis fully developerl ; palpi upturnecl, the 2iid joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and rather slenderly scaled, the Srcl long, frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round ; antennce of male miniitely ciliated, thorax clothed almost entirely with 

 scales, the metathorax -with depressed crest ; tibite smoothlj' scaled ; abdomen 

 with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the costa strongly arched near 

 base, the apes rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 

 and 6 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form a long areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 strongly 

 stalked ; 5 fully developed from angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 

 anastomosing witii the cell to middle. 



Sect. I. (Giaura). ITind wing of male with the tornal area contorted and witli 

 fringes of hair on upper and undersides. 



6560. Giaura repletana. 



Giaura repletana, Wlk. xxviii. 434 (18G3). 



S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with white ; pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen white. Fore wing grey-white tinged and irrorated 



Fig. 97. — Giaura rejpletana, c?. \, 



with pale brown ; a red-brown patch on basal costal area ; sub- 

 basal line slight, black, bent inwards in cell to base ; antemedial 

 line slight, blackish, incurved below subcostal nervure ; medial. 



