752 NOCTTTIDiE, 



abdomen ochreous white dorsally suffused with red-brown. Pore 

 wing olive-green very slightly irrorated with black, the inner area 

 and termen with some whitish suffusion ; subbasal line represented 

 by a minute blackish striga in cell ; an oblique wedge-shaped 

 yellowish white antemedial patch from costa, the very faint pale 

 antemedial line arising from its apex ; a triangular yellowish white 

 medial patch on costa and faint traces of a line from cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line represented by a small yellowish white 

 spot on costa and below vein 6 by slight diffused blackish marks 

 incurved below vein 4 ; the postmedial area tinged with purplish 

 grey except towards costa ; subterminal line slight, yellowish 

 white, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and bent outwards to 

 tornus ; some black points on termen ; cilia yellowish white with 

 slight dark line through them and blackish patches at middle and 

 above tornus and some black at apex and tornus. Hind wing 

 ochreous white suffused with red-brown, the termen rather darker ; 

 cilia brown at base, ochreous white at tips ; the underside ochreous 

 with brownish patches on costa before and beyond middle and 

 diffused terminal band. 



Bah. QtrBEsrsLAND, Townsville (Dodd), 1 d type. Exp. 21 

 millim. 



*6129. Tarache xuthosoma. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 11.) 

 Tarache xuthosoma, Turner, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. xxxiv. p. 349 (1909). 



S . Head and thorax white tinged with yellow ; palpi with 

 black-brown hair mixed ; antcnnee black-brown ; tegl^la3, patagia, 

 and metathorax with black-brown patches ; pectus and legs suffused 

 with black-brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen yellow, 

 the base and ventral surface white. Fore "wing white, the costal 

 edge black-brown ; a diffused black-brown subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial and medial irregular black-brown 

 lines, angled outwards in cell and confluent on inner area, some 

 black-brown irroration between them ; postmedial line excurved 

 below costa and at middle, then oblique to submedian fold where it 

 terminates ; subterminal line with a broad band of black-brown 

 suffusion on its inuer side, strongly bent outwards between veins 

 7 and 6 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black-brown 

 spots ; the apical area and cilia tinged with ochreous. Hind wing 

 ochreous white suffused and irrorated with black-brown ; the under- 

 side ochreous white slightly irrorated with fuscous, indistinct 

 antemedial, postmedial, and subterminal lines. 



Hah. Queensland, Xuranda {Dodd), type f c? in Coll. Turner ; 

 N. AusTEALiA, Port Darwin. Exp. 18 millim. 



