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o?j]ique elliptical and touching, or confluent with a similar stigma 

 below the cell ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line 

 defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4 and produced to slight streaks on the veins, 

 then incurved to lower edge of reniform and angled outwards on 

 veins 2 and 1, a diffused blackish fascia from it to termen above 

 and below vein 2 ; subterminal line indistinct, whitish defined on 

 inner side by small dentate black marks, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and dentate to termen at veins 4, '.i ; cilia fuscous intersected with 

 white. Hind wing fuscous, the basal half ratlier paler ; cilia white 

 with some fuscous at middle and apex ; the underside white slightly 

 irrorated with brown, the terminal area broadly black ; a black 

 discoidal lunule. 



Hah. N", tS. Wales (Raymr), 2 $ ; Victoiua, Gisborne (Liidl), 

 1 d", 1 $; Tasmania, 1 ?' type. Exp. 34-40 mill im. 



Genus NYCTYCIA, nov. 



Tjpe, N. persimilis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi pon-ect to just beyond frontal tuft and 

 fringed with loTig iiair below ; frons smooth ; eyes rather small and somewhat 

 reniform; antenna; of male minutely serrate, with fascicles of long cilia; head 

 and thorax sinootiily clothed chieiiy with scales, the pro- and metathorax with 

 spreading crests ; pectus a!id legs clothed with rather long hair ; abdomen with 

 dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the 

 termen obliquely curved and somewhat crenulate ; veins .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 wuig witii veins .3, 4 shortly stalked ; .5 ol)sole3- 

 cent from just below middle of discocellulars ; G, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anas- 

 tomosing witii the cell ne^jr base only. 



Sect. I. Palpi with the .3rd joint long and dilated at extremity. 



2467. Nyctycia plagiogramma, n. sp. 



J . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with fuscous ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; frons with black bar ; antennce blackish ; tegulae 

 with black medial shade ; tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen 



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Fig. 91. — Nyctycia flagiogramraa, ^. \. 



ochreous brown suffused with fuscous except anal tuft and base of 

 ventral surface. Pore wing ochreous brown irrorated with fuscous ; 

 a sinuous black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line represented 

 by a black point on costa ; antemedial line double at costa, then 

 single, oblique to submedian fold, then obsolete ; claviform fuscous 

 defined by black and confluent with lower edge of orbicular, which 



