CIRCOPETES; PAREPISPARES, PALAEODOXA. By L. B. Prout. 
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0. lutosaria Feld. (2 d). $ narrower than with longer-produced apex of forewing. Characteristic lutosaria. 
of the species is the orange hindwing, with the ground-colour of the forewing reappearing in the anal region 
and with the pale blue-grey abdominal irroration and postmedian spots. Felder’s type-form has the forewing 
ochreous with a tinge of olive-grey. — ah. punicea Feld, has the forewing bright rosy. — South Australia to punirm. 
New South Wales. Felder also says “North Australia”. 
35. Genus: Cifrcopetes Front. 
Differs from the (Enochroma group in its smoother face and in the wing-form, from Onychopsis and 
Parepisparis in being rather more robust and having the 1st subcostal of the forewing free. Antenna in 
bipectinate, in $ dentate. Hindtibia with all spurs. Australian. 
C. obtusata Walk. (= himeroides Walk., modesta Warr.) (2 e). A dingy species and apparently little obtusaia. 
subject to variation. The abdominal markings of the hindwing slightly recall those of Onychopsis lutosaria ; 
the forewing beneath bears a large purple-blackish spot between the 3rd radial and the 2nd median, and this 
generally shows through feebly in grey shading on the upperside. Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, West- 
Australia. I have a specimen also from “Port Moresby” (error or accidental importation?). 
36. Genus: Parepisparis B.-Bak. 
This genus was described by Bethune-Baker among the Noctuidae (!), in consequence of which his 
description was overlooked and Warren renamed it Gerusia. It agrees in most characters with Onychopsis 
but the palpus is generally stronger, the 1st subcostal vein of the forewing anastomoses with the 2nd and — ex¬ 
cept in rasimargo — the costal of the hindwing anastomoses with the subcostal. Inhabits New Guinea and 
Australia. The early stages are unknown. 
P. rasimargo Warr. Similar to virescens (2e) but much yellower, especially beneath, and very distinct rasimargo. 
in having the distal margins smooth, not crenulate, as well as in the venational character given above. Biagi, 
Mambare River, British New Guinea, at 5000 feet altitude, only Warren’s type 3 known, taken in April. 
P. crenulata B.-Bak. (= polydaedala Prout) (2 g). This and the two following form a natural group, crenulata. 
with a pencil of hair from the base of the forewing beneath. The distal margin of the hindwing, strongly cre¬ 
nulate in all the GG, A almost smooth in the $ of crenulata, and probably of the others, crenulata is distinguished 
by the strong pinkish and purple shades on both wings, by having the antemedian line of the forewing strongly 
oblique outward behind the sub median vein, etc. — ab. maculata Prout has a black blotch in the sub median maculaia. 
area of the forewing beyond the postmedian line. — British and Dutch New Guinea. 
P. virescens Warr. (2 e). More mixed with green than the allies, hindwing with a patch of blackish virescens. 
(androconial ?) scales opposite the hair-pencil of the forewing. $ unknown. — ab. viridimacula Warr. has a viridimacu- 
black-green blotch in the submedian area of the forewing beyond the outer line. -— Biagi, Mambare River, ,a - 
British New Guinea, February to April. 
P. olivescens Warr. has much darker and thicker markings than virescens, vertex of head and base of olivescens. 
antenna almost white, hair-pencil of forewing slighter, lines less crenulate, their course more regular. $ un¬ 
known. Taken with the preceding in March. 
P. excusata Walk. In coloration rather like crenulata, but with the hindwing predominantly light excuscita. 
yellowish brown; forewing with median shade thicker, less oblique anteriorly, postmedian line rather ill-defined, 
hair-pencil wanting; hindwing clouded on posterior part of distal area with purple-grey; forewing beneath with 
a blackish blotch beyond the postmedian line. — ab. multicolora T . P. Luc. has the hindwing darker, more muUicolora. 
nearly concolorous with the forewing. — ab. rubra Warr. has both wings varied with pink and purple, the rubra. 
markings almost obliterated; underside without the dark distal blotch. — excusata inhabits Queensland and 
according to Lucas has also been taken in New South Wales. 
37. Genus: Pals&eodoxsa Warr. 
Apparently nearly related to Parepisparis, but with the 2nd subcostal of the forewing free, the hind¬ 
wing with distal margin rather deeply excised between the radials, thence smooth to the anal angle, costal 
vein free, discocellulars deeply angulated inwards just before the origin of 2nd radial. Only one species known. 
P. subignea Warr. (2 e) cannot be mistaken for any species of Parepisparis. Apart from the difference subignea 
of shape, the bright orange-red shadings in the anal area of the hindwing above and in the distal area of both 
