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migera Guen. ( = indocilis Walk.) (14 e) of which I have seen $$ only, though Guenee says both sexes 
are the same, agrees with sepultrix in coloration, but the filling up of the outer line and a band beyond 
it, including the usually yellow blotch between veins 5 and 7, are white, or whitish, from vein 7 to 
inner margin, the outer band being, however, interrupted by the inner edge of the praesubmarginal 
shade on submedian fold; of this a form occurs, ab. subcarnea ab. nov. (= var. A. Gum.) (14 c) in which subcamea. 
the white suffusion in replaced by deep flesh colour or pinkish ochreous, stronger beyond the reniform 
stigma; Guenee’s type of this form was a <$; it is probably rare; there is no example in the British 
Museum Collection, and a single $ in the Tring Museum with the band ochreous only. Found in N. S. 
Wales and Victoria, Australia, and in Tasmania. 
N. expulsa Guen. (= trijuncta Walk.) (14 c). Forewing pale slaty grey; the median area between expulsa. 
subcostal vein and vein 1 filled in with dark grey and along submedian fold with black; the hues 
black; the inner outwardly oblique; the outer dentate lunulate, excurved above vein 4, incurved below; 
both lines are really double, but the inner and outer arms respectively are very faint; submarginal line 
denoted by black wedgeshaped marks preceding it and on submedian fold by a black blotch on both 
sides; some black marginal lunules; the fringe blackish with a pale line at base; orbicular stigma grey 
with black edge; a similar, but more elongate, mark below middle on base of vein 2 also grey; reniform 
larger and whiter; hindwing dirty grey, the outer half blackish. Tasmania only. 
N. nigerrima Guen. (= extima Walk.) (14c). Forewing velvety blackish; lines deeper black; nigerrimu. 
inner line oblique, waved; outer excurved above and with an outward angle on vein 2; subterminal 
flexuous, between blacker shades containing black dashes between veins; the three stigmata black-edged and 
filled up with leaden purple, the orbicular in contact with a small semicircular similar mark below 
median vein; reniform with white dots on outer edge, sometimes united to form an ochreous line 
slightly running into the stigma; hindwing whitish in basal half, the outer broadly blackish. Australia In 
the ab. albifusa ab. nov. ( = ab. 2 Hmps.) there is a larger white spot on the reniform and whitish albifusa. 
patches beyond outer line between veins 2 and 7 and at inner margin. 
N. saliaris Guen. (14 c). Forewing pale olive brown with more or less yellow admixture in the saliaris. 
G, darker brown with a mixture of fuscous purplish in the $; the median area darker brown in o, 
blackish brown in the $; inner and outer lines double, filled in with pale; the inner oblique outwards 
and outcurved above and below vein 1; the outer angled or bent outwards on veins 6 and 2 (generally 
angled in the and bent in the $) indented in middle towards reniform, denticulate above middle, 
from vein 2 to inner margin oblique and straight in the sinuous in the this lower part often 
white in the $; claviform stigma black-edged; orbicular oblique, flattened at both ends, brown or lead¬ 
en grey, laterally edged with black, touching a semicircular leaden grey patch below the median, edged 
also with black, and nearly touching the claviform; the reniform with top and bottom and inner edge 
dark, the centre and outer edge either yellow brown with the edge paler, or wholly snow white; sub¬ 
marginal line yellowish, wavy, preceded below vein 5 by a brown black curved shade and from 5 to 7 
by a narrow yellow brown mark; the termen beyond leaden purple or dark brown, the apex often 
pale; the outer line is sometimes marked by black t ;eth on the pale veins; a row of black termi¬ 
nal lunules; fringe brown in G, brown and purplish black in $, with a fine white crenulate line at base; 
hindwing brownish or blackish with rufous fringe. The species is subject to considerable variation; 
the white reniform generally indicates a and the ochreous one a G; the whole of the subtermi¬ 
nal space may be pale, either flesh coloured, in the $, or paler brown in the G; and the $$ are some¬ 
times larger than typical. Guenee’s typical description of saliaris refers to the brown <$<$ with yellow¬ 
ish ochreous reniform; of these the $$ are much darker and usually have the reniform white; this is 
ab. confundens Walk. (= familiaris Walk.) (14 c); in punctisigna Walk. (14 d), a paler form, the dark conf undens. 
praesubmarginal shade is conspicuous, forming blotches; —• exclusa Walk, is a large dark $, with the pu^clMgyw. 
reniform ochreous instead of white;—■ ab. carnea ab. nov. (= var. A. Guen.) (14 cl) has the whole postmedian earned. 
area between veins 2 and 6 pale flesh-coloured ochreous, with the median area dark brown, and the 
reniform white or whitish in the and in the <$ rather deeper ochreous, with the median area brown 
and the reniform ochreous; — • the ab. uniformis ab. nov. (= var. B. Guen.) has the forewings and uniformis. 
the fringe of the hindwings uniform pale brickred; the reniform white and the two stigmata coalescent 
along median vein; this form, which I have not seen, may be a distinct species. Australia and Tas¬ 
mania. 
N. mesophaea Trnr. Forewing purplish grey; a triangular black brown mark edged inwardly mesophaea. 
with whitish above inner margin before inner line, which is double, angled outwards on subcostal vein 
and interrupted, then oblique to submedian fold, and incurved to margin; median area, except along 
costa and inner margin, black brown; no claviform stigma; orbicular and reniform small, with grey 
centres and white annuli edged with black; the former oblique and confluent with a slight grey spot 
edged with black lying below the median and connected with the reniform, which is angled inwards on 
