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fusedly darker towards termen; costa fuscous interrupted by whitish 

 dots; reniform long, narrow, obliquely curved, upper end pointed; 

 lower end broader, rectangular, the whole being shaped like an 

 inverted comma, whitish, centre brownish narrowly outlined with 

 fuscous; a triangular fuscous patch outside reniform, sharply pro- 

 duced to a point posteriorly, not always well defined; a fine fuscous 

 line from upper end of reniform, describing a roughly circular line 

 as far as vein 5, and then produced towards dorsum; a triangular 

 fuscous costal patch before apex traversed by three or four pale 

 streaks parallel to veins; two short parallel dark-fuscous streaks from 

 I dorsum, separated by a pale streak; a fine fuscous terminal line 

 thickened on indentations; cilia dark-grey, apices reddish. Hind- 

 wings with termen rounded, crenulate; fuscous tinged with reddish, 

 dorsal edge whitish with three dark-reddish dots before tornus; a 

 dark-fuscous streak on vein 2, interrupted by two whitish dots; an 

 ill-defined whitish tornal mark giving rise to a short whitish terminal 

 line; terminal line and cilia as forewings, but bases of cilia whitish. 

 Underside whitish, with numerous fuscous transverse lines and suf- 

 fusion, and antemedian discal dot on hindwings. 



Near P. delatrix, but larger, more distinctly marked, reniform 

 differently shaped, not constricted, streak from f dorsum double, 

 posterior fuscous patch sharply pointed posteriorly, etc. 



N.Q., Kuranda, near Cairns, in April; Q., National Park (3000 ft.), 

 in March; two specimens. 



Subfam. CATOCALINAE. 



Parallelta arctotaenia. 



Ophinsa arctotaenia, Gn., Noct., iii. p. 272. 

 Parallelia arctotaenia, Hmps., Cat. Lep., Phal. xii., p. 594, 

 594, PI. 221, f. 7. 



N.Q., Claudie River, in February; one specimen taken by Mr. J. A. 

 Kershaw. Also from China, Japan, Ceylon, and India. Not previously 

 recorded from Australia. 



Subfam. NOCTUINAE. 



Raparna lugubris, n. sp. 

 (^ 2 24-28 mm. Head fuscous or grey. Palpi moderate; terminal 

 joint i of second, rather stout, acute; fuscous. Antennae fuscous; in 

 ^ with moderate ciliations (1) and longer bristles, (2) Thorax grey. 

 Abdomen grey, irrorated with dark-fuscous. Legs dark-fuscous. 

 Forewings triangular, costa slightly sinuate, apex rounded-rectangular, 

 termen bowed, scarcely oblique; fuscous; four blackish costal dots 

 at |, i, ^, and f, of these all but the first give rise to. extremely 

 fine dentate blackish transverse lines to dorsum; postmedian line 

 with minute whitish dots at apices of external dentations; subter- 

 minal represented by some whitish dots, with a larger costal dot 

 before apex; cilia fuscous, apices partly whitish. Hindwings like fore- 

 wings, but without costal markings and subterminal line; post- 



