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tlieir number and sizes vary very greatly ; besides these there is generally a black 

 subterminal line well marked, and sometimes interrupted, which does not reach the 

 apex or the inner margin ; another similar line, but less constant, precedes it, com- 

 mencing on the inner margin, but scarcely extending to a thii'd of the breadth of 

 the wing ; the fringe is intersected with black, and preceded by black dots, which 

 alternate with these marginal marks, and which, in well-marked specimens, are 

 outlined with whitish : the inferior wings have the same intersections and the same 

 dots ; they are blackish, but beneath the costa ^nd nervnres are covered with 

 castaneous hairs. The body is castaneous, as well as the antenna3, which, as in 

 Pielus in general, are formed of thick triangular joints, and are pubescent at the tips. 



Family LEPTOSOMID^. 

 Leptosoma annulatum, Bdv. 

 Bdv., voy. de I'Astrolab., pi. 5, fig. 9. 

 Nyctemera Douhledayi^ Walk. Cat. Brit. Mus., p. 392. 



This New Zealand species is the true L. annulatum of M. Bois- 

 duval, and Mr. Walker has erred in transferring that name to the species 

 from New Holland, which differs in the patagia being bordered with 

 white as well as the inner margin of the anterior wings ; in the yellow 

 fringe, the spots much less extended, the broader yellow abdominal 

 bands, the yellow face. &c. 



Thus it is the Australian insect which is unnamed, and I have long 

 designated it in my collection as L. plagiatum. 



I do not know the larva of annulatum^ but the chrysalis which 

 Mr. Fereday sent with the moth has (with the cocoon) great analogy 

 with those of our species of Setina. 



NOCTTIELITES. 

 Trifidce. 

 Family i. LEUCANIDiE. 

 Genus Nonagria. 



NONAGRIA propria. 



Leucania propria, Walk., p. Ill, 80. 



Mr. Walker says that the collar has a line of small black dots. 

 I find here a continuous black line, edged superiorily by a white dash. 

 He says nothing of the under-side, which is, however, very characteristic, 

 the anterior wings being blackish -grey, and the inferior pale ochreous- 

 white, with a black cellular dot ; all with a well-marked series of black 

 terminal dots. 



Nonagria juncicolor, Guenee, n. s. 

 Statura conspeciusque LEUCANIJE. Ales anticcv pallide testacecB, 



