654 NOCTUIDil'. 



tinged with fuscous ; a fine terminal black line except to-wards 

 torniis; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous. 



2 • Hind wing suffused with brown. 



JIah. AxjsTEALiA {Digijles), 1 6 type ; S. Australia, Alice Spring 

 (Loiuer), 1 c? . Faj). 36 naillim. 



1123. Ectopatria aspera. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 27.) 



Hadena aspera, Wlk. xi. 601 (1857). 

 Xylino, provida, Wlk. xv. 1737 (1858). 

 Xylina canescens, Wlk. xxxiii. 757 (1865). 



c? . Head and thorax grey tinged with brown and irrorated with 

 black ; palpi with the 2ud joint blackish at sides ; tegula) with black 

 medial line : tarsi banded with black ; abdomen dorsally tinged 

 with brown. Fore wing Avhitish, more or less tinged with brown 

 and irrorated with fuscous ; the subbasal line represented by black 

 striffi below costa and cell ; the antemedial line oblique, waved, 

 defined by black on inner side ; claviform elongate, defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform with bi'ownish centres and grey 

 annuli defined by black, the former small, nearly round, the latter 

 constricted at middle ; the postmedial line minutely dentate, defined 

 by Avhite on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblique and angled inwards in submedian fold ; an 

 indistinct pale subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and ex- 

 curved at middle, and with some dentate blackish marks on inner 

 side ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline 

 white, the veins fuscous ; the terminal area fuscous, broadly at costa, 

 narrowing to a point at tornus ; the underside with large black 

 apical patch, 



Bab. N. S. Wales, 1 c? type, {Raynor) 1 S ; New Zealand,. 

 Auckland, 3 J , types provida and canescens. Ea2). 38-40 millim. 



1124. Ectopatria umbrosa, n. sp. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 28.) 



5 . Head and thorax grey-brown, the scales tipped with grey ; 

 abdomen yellowish brown. Fore wing grey thickly irrorated with 

 fuscous • the costa, discal and submedian folds with slight pale 

 ochreous streaks ; a waved black subbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; a waved antemedial line slightly defined by grey on 

 inner side ; claviform indistinct, slightly defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform with brownish centres and grey annuli defined by 

 black the former elliptical, oblique, the latter constricted at middle ;. 

 a waved medial line indistinct except below cell ; a dentate post- 

 medial line defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below 

 costa excurved to vein 4, then oblique and angled inwards in sub- 

 median fold ; the subterminal line represented by very indistinct 

 dentate marks. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia white, with 

 brown line at base except towards tornus. 



Hal. Queensland {Matliew), 1 $ type. Exp. 40 millim. 



