niOPATRIA. 



051 



Genus PROPATRIA, nov. 



Type, P. neumides. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint oblique and fringed with 

 hair in front, the 3rd porrect ; Irons with large truncate conical prominence 

 with corneous rim at extremity ; eyes large, rounded ; antenn;i3 of male ciliated ; 

 head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the pro- and metathorax with 

 spreading crests ; tibise fringed with hair, the mid and hind tibi;c with a few 

 spines. Fore wing with yeins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 6 obsolescent from middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked. 



A. Fore wing with the veins defined by dentate white streaks 



towards termen 



B. F'ore wing with the veins not defined by dentate white streaks 



towards termen 



neuroides. 



mimdoides. 



Ills. Propatria neuroides. 



Heliothis neuroides, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 128 (1901). 



'Head and thorax clothed with white, rufous, and black scales ; 

 abdomen ochreous, veutrally white irrorated with brown. Fore 

 wing clothed with white, rufous, and brown scales ; the veins with 

 dark streaks defined by white ; the diseal and submedian folds 

 with rufous streaks ; an indistinct, slightly dentate, white and 

 brown antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform small, indistinct, 



Fig. 122. — Propatria neuroides, S • \- 



with brown centres and white annuli defined by brown, the former 

 elongate ; postmedial line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, angled inwards in submedian fold, then out- 

 wards on vein 1 ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia intersected 

 with vs^hite. Hind wing white, the veins and termen slightly tinged 

 with brown in male, in female the terminal area suffused with 

 brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 



Hah. W. Australia, Sherlock E. {Clements), 2S ■, 4$ . Exp. 32 

 millim. Type t in Mus. Oxon. 



1119. Propatria mundoides. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 24.) 

 Acjrotis onundoides. Lower, ined. 



Head and thorax clothed with dull rufous and dark brown scales 

 tipped with grey ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen pale brown, 

 the ventral surface white irrorated with brown. Pore wing duU 



