300 NOCTUIDiE. 



a point of raised black scales defined by white at middle of cell and 

 a black diseoidal lunule on a vound red-brown spot defined by 

 greyish ; postmedial line double, black-brown, the inner line arising 

 from costa near the antemedial line, bent outwards below costa, 

 then somewhat oblique to vein 3, then incurved ; subterminal line 

 defined on inner side by a slight brown shade, excurved below vein 

 7 and at middle, a deep red-brown patch beyond it at submedian 

 fold; a terminal series of blackish striae ; cilia with blackish patch ■ 

 towards tornus. Hind wing somihyaline white, the veins towards 

 termen and the termen fuscous brown. 



(5 . Fore wing with the costal and inner areas lilacine grey with 

 some black irroration and streaks, the area from below costa to sub- 

 median fold red-brown with a whitish patch at middle of terminal 

 area, a strong black streak in submedian fold and slighter streaks 

 on veins 7, 6, 2 ; the lines and stigmata hardly traceable ; hind wing 

 Avhite with a fine dark terminal line. 



Hub. TiUNSVAAL, White E. (Cooke), 1 J , 1 $ type. Exj). 28 

 millim. 



6597. Selepa rhythmopis. (Plate CLXXXII. fig. 14.) 



Tlotheia rhytlimoiyis, Turner, Pr. Linn. See. N. S. W. xxvii. p. 91 (1902). 



Head and thorax grey tinged with brown ; pectus and abdomen 

 whitish. Fore wing grey slightly tinged with brown and irrorated 

 with fuscous ; antemedial line double, the inner line indistinct, the 

 cuter strong, black, excurved from subcostal nervure to submedian 

 fold ; the whole medial area suffused with brown, the costal area 

 remaining grey with a black spot on it to near the postmedial line ; 

 claviform obscure, black ; orbicular and reniform represented by 

 tafts of black scales ; the postmedial line double, the inner line in- 

 distinct and strongly bent outwards below costa, the outer strong, 

 black, sinuous, excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved. 

 Hind wing semihyalino whitish tinged with brown especially on 

 the veins and towards termen. 



Hah. (iuEENSLAifD, Towusvillc {Dodd), 1 $ , Brisbane, type t in 

 Coll. Turner. Exp. 26 millim. 



6598. Selepa gersea. (Plate CLXXXII. fig. 15.) 



Sarotricha demiota, Mevr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 464 (?) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Lep. Het. p. 370. 

 Plotheia gercBa, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 582 (1905). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey slij^htly tinged with fuscous ; 

 tegula3 with fine oblique dark streaks, patagia with black upper 

 edge and fine oblique streak across tips. Pore wing grey slightly 

 suffused with fuscous brown and finely irrorated with black ; 

 obliquely placed subbasal fuscous points in and below cell ; an in- 

 distinct double antemedial line, slightly angled inwards on median 

 nervure and oblique below submedian fold; a small black diseoidal 

 bar ; postmedial line rather indistinct, double, oblique from costa 



