66 NOCTiriDiE. 



costal area beyond it whitish with a black streak below it ; post- 

 medial line oblique and black towards costa, then indistinct, dentate 

 and produced to black and white points on the veins, a triangular 

 blackish mark bej-ond it on costal area defined by white and with 

 some white points on the costa ; an indistinct dark subterminal 

 line, dentate to vein 3, then incurved ; a punctiform brown 

 terminal line. Hind wing purplish grey tinged with red-brown 

 and slightly irrorated with black ; a black discoidal lunule ; a rather 

 diffused slightly sinuous black medial line ; a faint postmedial line 

 dentate and produced to blackish points on the veins, the area 

 beyond it paler to the faint dentate subterminal line, with black 

 spots before it above and below submedian fold ; a fine brown 

 terminal line; cilia with a fine pale line at base; the underside 

 rufous with slight dark irroration, a black discoidal spot, black 

 medial line excurved from below costa to vein 3, slight dentate 

 postmedial line produced to black points on the veins and terminal 

 series of black points. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial line almost obsolete except 

 towards costa and two spots above inner margin and without the 

 whitish patch beyond it on costa ; hind wing with the medial line 

 indistinct. 



Ab. 2. Similar, but the terminal half of fore wing and the medial 

 and terminal areas of hind wing more sulfnsed with red-brown. 



Hab. Queensland, Armidale (Z>oc?cZ), 1 $ type,Townsville (DofZcZ), 

 2 2 . Exp. 22-26 millim. 



Sect. II. Fore wing with the termen excised from apex to vein 3 where it is 

 angled, then oblique ; hind wing with the termen angled at vein 7, 

 excised to vein 4 where it is excurved, then with two excisions to 

 tornus. 



*5076. Eiiblemma leptinia. 



NicrcEKhus lephna, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1899, p. 731. 



6 . Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish red mixed with whitish ; 

 palpi with dark bar near extremity of 2nd joint ; tarsi white. 

 Pore wing whitish almost wholly suffused with purplish red and 



Fig. 29. — Eiiblemma leptinia, (^ . f. 



with slight dark irroration ; subbasal line represented by a black 

 point on costa defined by white on outer side ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, dark, defined by whitish on inner side at costa, strongly 

 excurved from subcostal nervure to inner margin ; orbicular 

 represented by a white point, the reniform by a small black lunule 



