342 NOCTUID^. 



fine whitish line at base of cilia ; the underside greyer, with slight 

 diseoidal point and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Japan, Yokohama {Pryer), 3 c? , 4 ? , type. Exp. 32-38 

 millim. 



2512. Eiimichtis saliaris. (Plate CIV. fig. 14.) 



Aparnea scdiaoHs, Gueii. Noct. i. p. 212 (1852). 

 AjMmea sjpumigera, Gueii. Noct. i. p. 212 (1852). 

 Euplcxia confundens, Wlk. xi. 544 (1857). 

 Euplexia exclusa, Wlk. xi. 545 (1857). 

 Hadena familiaris, Wlk. si. 597 (1857). 

 Hadcna punctmgna, Wlk. xi. 600 (1857). 



Head and thorax hright rufous slightly mixed with fuscous ; 

 palpi with blackish patch on second joint at sides ; tegulae with 

 brown medial line ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen rufous 

 dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing bright rufous slightly 

 irrorated with black, the medial area and terminal area except 

 towards apex suffused with blackish ; subbasal line indistinctly 

 double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; a black mark on 

 inner margin near base ; antemedial line double at costa, then 

 single, oblique, slightly sinuous, acutely angled outwards above 

 inner margin ; claviform short, slightly defined by blackish ; 

 orbicular and reniform incompletely defined by black, the former 

 oblique elliptical, forming a lobe below the cell, the latter with 

 pale spot on its outer side ; postmedial line double at costa, then 

 single, indistinct and interrupted, bent outwards below costa, 

 dentate at vein 6 and with black points beyond it on median 

 nervules, angled outwards in submedian fold, then oblique, some 

 pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line pale, slightly 

 defined by brown on inner side and with some blackish beyond it 

 except towards costa and before it in submedian interspace, angled 

 •outwards at vein 7 and excurved below middle, the veins beyond 

 it with blackish streaks ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia chequered rufous and fuscous. Hind wing fuscous with a 

 rufous tinge ; some j)ale and blackish marks on vein 2 towards 

 termen ; cilia rufous ; the underside pale rufous, the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous, a diseoidal spot and diffused waved post- 

 medial line. 



Ab. 1. exclusa. Thorax and fore wing darker and largely 

 suffused with fuscous. 



Ab. 2. confundens. Bright rufous ; fore wing with pure white 

 spot on reniform. 



Ab. 3. familiaris. Dark ; fore wing with pure white spot on 

 reniform. 



Ab. 4. spumigera. Fore wing with the spot on reniform white 

 and with large pale patches beyond the postmedial line between 

 veins 7 and 2 and above inner margin. 



Hah. Queensland, Moreton Bay {Biggies), 1 c? ; N. S. Wales 

 {Daniel, Raynor), 1 J , 2 ? ; Victoeia, Gisborne (Lyell), 1 c? ; 



