590 noctuid-t;. 



curved antcmedial line, of a waved medial line oxcurved below 

 cosia, and of a postmedial line excurved below costa and at middle ; 



Fig. 233. — Acachmena cenocrossa, J . ] . 



traces of a subterminal series of dark points ; cilia deep blood-red. 

 Hind wing whitish tinged with brown. 



Hah. Queensland, Kuranda (Dodd), type f 5 in Coll. Turner. 

 Ea'j). 20 millim. 



Genus ACRIPIA. 



Type. 

 Acripia, Wlk. xxvii. 9 (1863) sulolivacca. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint I'eaching to vertex 

 of head aud moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; irons smootii, with tuft of 

 hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennaa of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with 

 hair and scales mixed, the tegulte produced to a slight dorsal ridge, the pro- 

 thorax with triangular ridge-like crest; tibite slightly fringed with hair; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing short and broad, the costa 

 highly arched near base, the apex produced and acute, the termen excised 

 below apex and towards tornus and excurved at middle ; veins 3 and 5 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 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anas- 

 tomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the apical area not tinged with green. 



a. Thorax and base and medial area of fore wing dark red- 



browu irottled with rufo us sccqmlaris. 



h. Thorax and base aud medial area of fore wing brownish- 



gi-ey' sioholivacea. 



B. Fore wing with the apical area tinged with green. 



a. Tegula; fulvous red leprosa. 



h. Tegulic fuscous edged with white cMoropera. 



C. Fore wing uniform olive-green seviiviridis, 



*7003. Acripia scapularis. 



Flastenis scapularis, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 111. f. 10 (1874). 



5 . Head grey mixed with brown ; thorax rufous mixed with 

 red-brown ; palpi white at base ; pectus white ; legs whitish 

 mixed with brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen 

 grey-brown, the ventral surface whitish mixed with red-brown. 

 Eore wing brownish grey slightly irrorated and striated with 

 brown ; a red-brown patch at base from costa to vein 1 ; the 

 medial area suffused with rufous and with numerous strite of black- 

 brown scales, its inner edge angled outwards at subcostal and 



