380 



NOCTUID^. 



slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous black. Uuder- 

 side uniform deep fuscous black. 



5 . Fore wing with white spot on reniform ; hind wing pale 

 fuscous, the iinderside white irrorated with black, a black discoidal 

 point and large apical patch. 



Hah. Queensland, Brisbane {Turner), 2 c? , 3 $ ; N. S. Wales, 

 Moreton Baj^ {Difjgles), 2 c? , 1 $ , type suhnif/ra ; Vicxokia, Mel- 

 bourne (Lotver), 2 $ , Exp. 36-38 millim. Typef in Mus. Paris, 



664. Agrotis hypochalcis. (Plate LXIX. fig. 29.) 



AgroHs hypochalcis, Turner, Proc. Liun. Soc. N. S. W. 1902, p. 80. 



S . Head and thorax pale red-brown irrorated with black ; palpi 

 black, whitish at tips ; abdomen grey-brown ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen fuscous mixed with grey. Fore wing 

 pale reddish brown irrorated with black, the inner and terminal 

 areas suffused with black ; an indistinct double, waved, sub- 

 basal line from costa to submedian fold; an indistinct oblique double 

 waved antemedial line ; orbicular represented by a black point ; 

 reniform black defined by white and with some rufous at middle, 

 narrow, expanding below ; postmedial line indistinct, highly dentate, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; the subterminal line pale, defined by black suffusion on 

 inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown. Underside with the basal two-thirds golden-olive with 

 irregular outer edge, the terminal area fuscous. 



$ . Purple-brown ; fore wing with the reniform more rufous ; 

 the underside fuscous with the marginal areas brown ; hind wing 

 whitish, thickly irrorated with brown, a discoidal point, curved 

 postmedial line, and apical brown patch. 



Hah. Queensland, Brisbane {Turner), 1 J , 2 § ; X. S. Wales, 

 Sydney {Raynor), 1 $ . Exp. 34-38 millim. 



h^. Underside of wings not clothed with androconia in male. 

 a?. (Diarsia.) Palpi with the hair on 2nd joint produced 

 to a point at extremity. 

 «'. Hind wing orange, 

 a*. Hind wing with blackish discoidal lunule. 

 a^. Fore wing with black bar from costa before sub- 

 terminal line orhona. 



U'. Fore wing without black bar from costa before sub- 

 terminal line comes. 



6*. Hind wing without blackish discoidal lunule pronuba. 



P. Hind wing not orange. 



a*. Tegnlaj wholly black collaris. 



hK Tegula? pale at base, with prominent black patch at 



tips. 



«'. Fore wing with the orbicular V-shaped, open above. 



a''. Fore wing with prominent pale costal fascia from 



base to postmedial line, with fine streaks on it 



defining the veins. 



