664: KOCTUIDiE. 



terminal series of small blackish spots. Hind wing dull reddish, 

 orange, the veins and costal area tinged with brown ; a broad 

 fuscous terminal baud witli diffused sinuous inner edge, leaving the 

 termen narrowly orange, expanding into a patch in submedian 

 interspace ; cilia whitish tinged with orange, dark at apex ; the 

 underside whitish tinged with orange, a slight discoidal spot and 

 diffused fuscous subterminal band. 



Hah. Queensland, Moretou Eay (Diggles), 1 $ type, Brisbane 

 {Turner), 1 $ ; W. Australia {Diggles), 1 J . Exp. 34 millim. 



3558. Aucha vesta. (Plate CXXIII. fig. 8.) 

 Aucha vesta, Swinb. A. M. N. H. (7) vii. p. 493 (1901). 



c5' . Head and thorax reddish brown suffused with grey; shoulders 

 Avith dark stripes ; a dark band across middle of thorax ; pectus 

 and legs whitish tinged with brown, the fore tibiae and the tarsi 

 with dark brown bands ; abdomen orange-brown, the ventral sur- 

 face white tinged with ochreous at extremity. Fore wing reddish 

 brown suffused with grey, especially on basal and postmedial areas; 

 subbasal line represented by blackish points below costa and in 

 cell ; antemedial line double, filled in with grey, the inner line 

 less distinct, angled outwards below costa and inwards on vein 1 

 where there is some black suffusion before it ; claviform represented 

 by a black lunule on the antemedial line ; orbicular grey defined 

 by black and with black spot in centre, its outer part tinged with 

 rufous ; reniform with rufous bar followed by two black spots on 

 its inner side and three black points on its outer ; a diffused black- 

 brown medial shade with slight rufous mark on it in cell ; post- 

 medial line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, 

 dentate, the costa beyond it with slight whitish streaks; subterminal 

 line grey-white defined on inner side by black sufi'usion, dentate, 

 angled outwards below veins 7 and 4 ; a series of blackish points 

 on termen from apex to below vein 4. Hind wing black-brown, 

 the inner area suflPused with orange except towards tornus ; an 

 orange fascia in lower part of cell, expanding beyond the cell and 

 extending to near termen ; a slight discoidal black lunule ; cilia 

 orange ; the underside with the orange and orange-sufiused areas 

 pale yellow. 



Hah. Queensland, Coomoo, 1 S type. Exp. 38 millim. 



3559. Aucha nectens. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 9.) 



Triphsna nectens, Wlk. xv. 1704 (1858); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 104. 

 Briarda lati-pennis, Wlk. sxxiii. 894 (1865). 



2 . Head and thorax dark brown irrorated and suffused with 

 grey, the tegulae and prothorax with faint irregular dark bands ; 

 pectus and legs whitish irrorated with brown, the tarsi fuscous 

 ringed with whitish ; abdomen brown with an orange tinge, the 

 ventral surface whitish. Fore wing dark brown suffused with grey; 



