382 



NOCTUID^f). 



apex to vein 2 ; the underside white, the terminal area black from 

 apex to vein 3. 



Ilnh. Queensland, Kuranda (Dodd), 1 $ t^-pe. Ex2'>. 30 millim, 



*6706. Calatlmsa stenophylla. (Plate CLXXXTV. fig. 16.) 

 Cm-ula stenophylla, Turner, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxvii. p. 100 (1902). 



(J . Head and thorax grey; palpi, antennae, a patch on tegulse, and 

 metathoracic crest black ; abdomen grey dorsally slightly tinged vrith 

 brown. Fore wdng grey ; the subbasal line blackish, curved, from 

 costa to vein 1, followed by a black-suffased band before the ante- 

 medial slightly waved line ; a black-suffused medial band with the 

 slight tufts of black scales representing the orbicular and reniform on 

 it and bounded by the fine black postmedial line, excurved between 

 sabcostal nervure and vein 3 ; costa brownish towards apex with 

 three black spots on it ; a double irregularlv waved subterminal 

 line, the inner line strong, black with some black suffusion on its inner 

 edge ; a series of black striae before termen and a fine black terminal 

 line. Hind wing white tinged with fuscous; the terminal area 

 fuscous narrowing to a point at tornus ; the underside pure white 

 with terminal black band from costa to vein 2. 



Hah. Queensland, Brisbane, type t d in Coll. Turner. Exjj. 

 2J millim. 



6707. Calathusa 'basicuiiea. 



Calathusa hasicunea, Wit. xv. 1645 (1858). 



8ina tenera, Wlk. xxxii. 610 (1865). 



Hisbanda acronyctoides, Wlk. xxxiv. 1268 (1865). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brown, some blackish 

 at lips of tegulse and in pro- and metathoracic crests ; the palpi and 

 legs irrorated with purplish red, the tarsi ringed with black ; 

 abdomen white sufi'used with purplish red. Pore wing grey-white 

 mixed with pale brown and irrorated with black ; a very short 



Fig. 145. — Calathusa basicunea, S- h 



black streak at base of median nervure and an oblique subbasal 

 black striga from costa ; antemedial line black, oblique, incurved in 

 submedian interspace, an olive-brown shade beyond it from costa to 

 median nervure ; tufts of raised scales tipped with blackish at middle 

 of cell and on di-scocellulars ; an oblique blackish bar from middle 

 of costa and a slight streak on vein 2 before the double postmedial 



