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SETAGROTIS; BUCIARA. By W. Warren. 
subrufes- E. subrufescens Walk. (8g). Porewing white thickly speckled with olive grey; the cel! dark grey; lines 
cens • black and well marked, conversely pale-edged; the inner oblique, curved outwards between veins; the outer 
dentate lunulate, outcurved above, indented on submedian fold; subterminal line pale, defined by black wedge 
shaped marks before it; orbicular and reniform white with black outlines and olive grey scaling inside; the 
orbicular round; the reniform indented on outer edge; claviform slender, blackish, continued as a black 
streak to base; a black terminal festoon; fringe grey; hindwing white in $ with fuscous veins and terminal 
border from apex to vein 2; in $ grey, with outer half fuscous; fringe white. S. Australia. 
asp era. E. aspera Walk. (-— provida Walk., canescens Walk.) (8 h). Forewing whitish, washed with pale brown, 
suffused in places with fuscous and irrorated with grey; lines and markings almost as in the last species, the 
reniform stigma often white; hindwing similar; the species can always be distinguished by its brown tinge; 
the $ is darker and shows less white. The type of aspera from Australia; those of provida and canescens from 
N. Zealand. 
umbrosa. E. umbrosa Hmps. (8 h). Forewing almost uniform dull grey brown, slightly paler along costa, at base, 
and along outer part of submedian fold; lines pale grey with dark edging; inner line more vertical; subterminal 
bluish grey, close to termen, preceded by a single black dash below vein 5; orbicular and reniform stigmata 
grey with white annuli and black outlines, the reniform swollen above on both sides; hindwing fuscous brown, 
paler in basal half. The type, a $, from Queensland; another, also a $, in Tring Museum from Roebourne, W. 
Australia. 
renalba. E. renalba Warr. Forewing brownish fuscous faintly rufous-tinged; in basal area and along costa 
paler, being more mixed with whitish scales; inner and outer lines black, conversely pale-edged, the outer lunu¬ 
late dentate; orbicular and reniform with rufous brown centres and pale annuli defined by black; the orbicular 
round, small and indistinct; the reniform deeply indented on outer edge at middle, the annulus broadly white, 
with a white spot on costa above it; subterminal line pale, interrupted; preceded and followed by black streaks 
in the intervals; those below veins 5, 6 continued to outer edge of reniform stigma; a row of black lunules along 
termen; fringe brown, with pale line at base; hindwing fuscous, with basal half whitish. Tasmania. 
15. Genus: Setagrotis gen. nov. 
Tongue well-developed; frons smooth; palpi obliquely porrect, the second segment thickly fringed 
with hair, the third long, smooth, projected forwards; antennae of subserrate, with very long slender fascicles 
of cilia alternating with shorter ones; thorax clothed with hair only, without crests; tibiae fringed with hair; 
hind tibiae with a single spine between spurs; pectus and femora woolly; veins 6, 7 of hind wing not stalked. 
Type Setagrotis cuprea Moore. 
cuprea. S. cuprea Moore. Forewing bright fulvous with dark ferruginous scaling; costal area dark grey brown; 
some darker brown in base of cell and beyond the reniform, except the lower half of the interval above vein 5; 
the veins also grey brown; inner line ferruginous, curved between the veins; outer line brown, simply curved; 
subterminal line fulvous, preceded by a waved and dentate darker shade, the terminal area beyond greyish 
ferruginous; stigmata large, bright fulvous edged with ferruginous and with similar scales at centre; hindwing 
dark fuscous, with the costal area and fringe fulvous. Sikkim, N. India. 
16. Genus: ISueiara Walk. 
Tongue well developed; frons smooth; palpi obliquely upturned, the second segment fringed in front 
with long hair, the third porrect, smooth, rather long and somewhat spatulate; antennae of £ bipectinate to 
3 /4, the branches of medium length; t horax and abdomen crested, the crest on metathorax prominent; hind tibiae 
with a single spine only between the median and terminal pair of spurs; forewing with apex rectangular, the ter¬ 
men crenulate; inner margin with slight tooth of scales near base and before tornus; hindwing with the termen 
crenulate, more deeply excised beyond cell. Type B. bipartita Walk. 
bipartita. B. bipartita Walk. ( — acmophora Meyr.). Forewing violet grey, suffused in parts with redbrown and 
dusted with fuscous; inner and outer lines obscurely double; the inner angled outwards in the intervals and 
inwards on the veins; outer line bent outwards below costa and incurved beyond cell, dentate across the median 
nervules, and on submedian fold angled inwards to inner line, then prominent, angled outwards on vein 1 and 
filled in and defined on outer side with whitish; subterminal line white, excurved at middle, preceded by a dif¬ 
fuse dark shade, oblique from apex to vein 6, and another from vein 3 to 1, and by black streaks between veins, 
placed in a white patch between the dark shades; orbicular stigma narrow, oblique, the centre brown, the annulus 
grey, defined by black; reniform with indistinct grey annulus edged with black internally; hindwing white in 
basal half, fuscous in terminal; fringe white cut by brown; in the $ the hindwing has the basal area also fuscous. 
Australia, North Queensland, ? Victoria; the locality of the type was unknown. 
