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^'orririD^. 



*274S. Phffiopyra cMoeropis. (Plate CVIII. fig. 9.) 



Eaplexia chloeropis, Turner, Tr. E. Soc. S. Aitstr. xxviii. p. 213 (1904). 



6 ■ Head and tegulte pale rufous, the latter greyish at base ; 

 2nd joint of palpi blackish at sides ; frons -with black lateral bars ; 

 thorax brown mixed with grey and some black scales ; pectus and 

 legs rufous; abdonaen fuscous,, the anal tuft rufoi;s, the ventral 

 surface rufous at base followed by bands on the next two segments. 

 Fore wing red-brown irrorated with grey and dark brown ; the 

 base and inner area suffused with grey ; a curved blackish subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold, double at costa ; an indistinct 

 minutely waved antemedial line, double at costa and obsolete 

 on inner area ; orbicular and reniform small, the former round, 

 grey defined by black, and with black centre, the latter indistinctly 

 defined by black and suffused with brown ; postmedial lino in- 

 distinct and slightly defined by grey on outer side, minutely 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4 ; 

 some grey points on costa towards apex ; subterminal line in- 

 distinct, greyish and fuscous, slightly dentate, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle, a grey patch beyond it at apex ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia grey and brown. Hind 

 Aving fuscous, brownish towards base ; the cilia grey ; the underside 

 ochreous grey, with broad fuscous terminal band except at tornus ; 

 a slight discoidal point and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hab. Queensland, Biggenden, type f J in Coll. Turner. Erp. 

 40 millim. 



2749. Phaeopyra novaguinensis. 



Protagrotis novaguinensis, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 192 (1906). 



Head and thorax pale grey mixed with 7-eddish brown ; palpi 

 blackish at sides, except at extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints ; 



Fig. 2. — T'hao'pyra novaguinensis, (^ . \. 



frons with black bars at middle and above ; vertex of head 

 blackish; patagia with oblique red-brown stripes at base; tarsi 

 ))lack with pale rings ; abdomen grey suffused with reddish brown, 

 rhe ventral surface whitish suffused with rufous, the extremity 

 blackish. Fore wing grey suffused with reddish brown, especially 

 on costal half from before middle to near apex; a black point at 



