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NOTOREAS. By L. B. Protit. 
melanchlae- 
71 a. 
decisaria. 
monacmaria. 
cuesia. 
phaeoxutha. 
euclidiata. 
glyphicata. 
hedylepta. 
aethalopa. 
omichlias. 
the central subterminal spots wanting, the costal subterminal spot apparently not V-shaped; fringes smoky 
grey, only on hindwing barred with whitish. Hindwing beneath almost wholly yellow. Field Peak, 
Tararua Range, 4500 feet, quite abundant in the (rare) intervals of sunshine. 
D. melanchlaena Turn. (24 c). Recognizable at once by its black-brown colour, with dark markings 
scarcely discernible; on the upperside of the forewing the boundaries of the median area are indicated by slender 
white lines and there are also still slighter, more interrupted, subbasal and subterminal. Palpus long. Mt. 
Kosciusko, N. S. W.. at 5000 feet, in December. 
D. decisaria Walk. (24 c). Not quite so dark and much more variegated, the postmedian line on both 
wings deeply sinuous, the subterminal, except in the darkest specimens, accompanied proximally by a partial 
or complete band of dark shading. Palpus moderate. Described from Tasmania and reaching Victoria. 
D. monacmaria Mab. (24 c), described as a Camptogramma and erroneously supposed to come from 
“West Africa - ’, is either a large aberration, race or close ally of decisaria, browner both above and beneath, 
the paler area outside the postmedian broad and rather well defined, the dark presubterminal shade on the 
underside neither strong nor broad. 
D. caesia Turn. “Closely allied to decisaria (24 c); but the forewings are narrower and much paler, 
the postmedian line with median projection less marked, and the hindwings have termen not wavy, and the 
postmedian line not angled.” The type, a $ from Kewell, Victoria, expands 22 mm and is described as whitish 
or whitish grey, the markings grey, terminal area of forewing “suffusedlv darker”, of the hindwing forming 
a broad dark band. 
D. phaeoxutha Turn. (24 d). Another elongate-winged species, the markings variable in detail; the 
orange-brown hindwing above and beneath (nearly “sayal-brown” of Ridgway), with suffusions of the same 
on the more variegated forewing are distinctive, as also the pale “halo” which surrounds the cell-dot of the 
forewing. Palpus long. Mount Kosciusko, in December. 
D. euclidiata Guen. (24 d). Smaller than decisaria and much more sharply marked, the hindwing above 
and both wings beneath with a good deal of yellow (occasionally whitish-yellow) admixture. Best known 
from Victoria; also New South Wales, and Turner records taking in abundance in October at Warwick, 
Queensland, flying actively in the bright sunshine, attracted by the flowers of Galium. Somewhat variable.— 
ab. glyphicata Guen. is simply a rather small, extra sharply marked aberration, with the hindwing blackish 
except the clear yellow median band. 
D. hedylepta Turn. (24 cl). Much larger, reaching or even surpassing the expanse of the New Zealand 
anceps and with similar colouring, but not so broad-winged, the postmedian of both wings more outbent 
in the middle. Less strongly hairy than typical Dasyuris, indeed transitional (face and palpus) to the Euphyia 
group. A mountain species, discovered on Mount Erica, Victoria, at 4500 feet, since taken on Kosciusko, 
5000—6000 feet. January to March. 
2. Genus: Notoreas Meyr. 
Antenna of the bipectinate. Otherwise it has not yet been demonstrated to differ at all from Dasyuris 
and when only $ $ have been accessible incorrect guesses have not infrequently been made concerning the generic 
position. According to some systematists, therefore, Notoreas should be regarded as a section of Dasyuris. 
Excepting the first species, all belong to New Zealand. 
N. aethalopa Turn. 18 mm. Antennal pectinations very long. Forewing with termen long, bowed, 
oblique; dark fuscous, sparsely irrorated with white; a median ochreous spot near base; some blackish suf¬ 
fusion beyond this; antemedian line ill developed, but edged distally with ochreous; median area paler; post¬ 
median line tine, blackish, slightly dentate, obtusely angled in disc, broadly edged proximally with ochreous; 
cell-clot and a small median spot at hindmargin blackish. Hindwing rounded; uniform dark fuscous; lines 
blackish, suffused. Underside blackish, with rather dense white irroration except on 3 lines. Zeehan, Tas¬ 
mania, 1 $ in November. 
N. omichlias Meyr. (24 d). Glossy dark grey, somewhat as in hectori or the Palaearctic species of Dasyuris. 
Markings rather weak, especially on the upperside. Underside paler. Type locality Castle Hill, at about 5000 feet; 
also from Tararua, Humboldt Range, Hunter Mountains and Mount Holdsworth; not common, 4000 feet and 
upward. The form from Mt. Holdsworth is perhaps a distinct race, the boundaries of basal and median areas 
marked by slender light dull ochreous fasciae. 
