880 NOCTUID^. 



slight blackish irroration ; the costal area suffused with fuscous 

 from near base to subterraiual line ; a large fuscous patch on inner 

 area from near base to middle ; an oblique almost straight black 

 antemedial line ; reniform small, indistinctly defined by brown ; 

 postmedial line black, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 incurved at discal fold and more strongly below vein 4, some grey 

 points beyond it on costa ; sabterminal line greyish, excurved at 

 middle, defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side and by a brown 

 line on outer ; a series of dark points before termen. Hind wing 

 pale red with the terminal area black, narrowing to a point at 

 tornus ; cilia red ; the underside pale tinged with red. 



Hah. Queensland, Mackay, type f ^ in Coll. Lower, Exiy. 

 30 millim. 



6702. Calathusa ischnodes. (Plate CLXXXIV. fig. 12.) 



Corula ischnodes, Turner, Tr. E. Soc. S. Austr. xxvii. p. 10 (1903). 



2 . Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with fuscoxis ; pectus 

 and hind legs brownish white ; abdomen ochreous white tinged 

 with brown. Fore wing purplish grey snffnsed with brown, the 

 veins and discal and submedian folds streaked with black ; traces 

 of a pale curved antemedial band defined at sides by faint blackish 

 lines ; a whitish postmedial line faintly defined on inner and outer 

 sides by dark lines, excurved below costa and at middle, incurved 

 at discal fold and below vein 4 ; traces of a rather diffused dark 

 subterminal line ; a series of slight dark striae just before termen 

 and a fine terminal line. Hind wing pale purplish red, the costal 

 area whitish, the apical point of terminal area tinged with brown : 

 cilia whitish ; the underside whitish with blackish terminal band 

 from apex to vein 2. 



Hub. Queensland, Duaringa {Barnard), 2 5; N. S. Wales, 

 Waverley {Lyell), 1 $ . Exy. 28-32 millim. 



6703. Calathusa octogesima, (Plate CLXXXIV. fig. 13.) 



Corula octoffesima, Turner, Pr. Liun. Soc. N. S. W. xxvii p. 97 (1902). 



2 . Hark brown mixed with grey-white ; pectus and legs white, 

 the latter irrorated with brown ; abdomen yellow dorsally tinged 

 with )>rown on terminal half, the ventral surf ace white. Pore wing 

 dark brown mixed with some grey-white and slightly irrorated with 

 black ; a subbasal black line from costa to submedian fold, slightly 

 excurved below costa ; antemedial line black, slightly angled out- 

 wards below costa, then somewhat excurved ; orbicular confluent 

 with a stigma below the cell forming a figure-of-eight shaped mark, 

 the reniform elliptical, all defined by black and with tufts of 

 blackish scales in centres ; postmedial line black, oblique from costa 

 to vein 6 and slightly incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 white defined on inner side by black forming two spots below costa 

 and with white suffusion before it, excurved below vein 7 and at 



