NITOCRIS. By W. Warren. 
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small black and white lunule with some fuscous at lower angle of cell; traces of double waved outer line, in¬ 
curved to costa, with a row of black points on veins; subterminal line sinuous, indistinct; a terminal series of 
black points; hindwing slightly tinged with fuscous in terminal area; underside with blackish apical patch. 
Parkside, S. Australia; described from a single $. 
0. xerampelina Trnr. (29 e). Porewing fiery red irrorated with brown and some black scales; subbasal xerampe- 
line of double black striae; inner line obscurely double, slightly waved, oblique; orbicular and reniform stig- '■ ina - 
mata rather small, indistinctly edged with black; the former round, the latter defined only on inner side; outer 
line dark edged with red externally, outbent below costa, then dentate, excurved above, incurved below vein 4; 
subterminal line a series of red lunules preceded by blackish streaks below costa and at middle; hindwing 
whitish tinged with brown, especially towards termen; fringe white tinged with red; underside white; the costal 
area and apical half of terminal area irrorated with brown. W. Australia and S. Australia. 
0. plinthina Trnr. (29 e). Forewing bright fiery rufous irrorated with black; a waved black subbasal plinthina. 
line; a strong waved black inner line; orbicular and reniform slightly defined by black, the former round; outer 
line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line diffuse, 
somewhat dentate; a terminal series of small black lunules; hindwing ochreous white tinged with brown; 
underside with the apical area suffused with brown. Roebourne, W. Australia. 
112. Genus: Jiitocris Guen. 
Tongue fully developed; palpi upturned, short, the second segment broadly scaled, the third short; 
frons smooth; thorax and abdomen without crests; forewing with costa straight, apex rounded, termen obli- 
ciuely curved; neuration normal. Type N. comma Guen. Of the 42 species all are Australian except 2, which 
come from N. Zealand and Fiji respectively. 
■ Sect. I. Antennae of $ bipectinate with short branches, the apex simple. 
N. ochroleuca Lower. Forewing white tinged with pale rufous; the lines rufous; inner line fine, angled ochroleuca. 
outwards above and below median vein; a cloudy median shade touching the discal lunule; outer line lunulate 
dentate, oblique to vein 6, then incurved; subterminal line sinuous, indistinct; hindwing pure white Fraser’s 
Range, W. Australia. 
N. pelosticta Lower (29 e). Forewing ochreous white irrorated with rufous; the median nervure streak- pelosticfa. 
ed with fuscous, which expands into a spot at lower angle of cell and diffused patch just beyond the angle; 
the costa suffused with fuscous towards apex; a subterminal brown shade rising from termen below apex; 
hindwing clear white. Queensland and N. S. Wales. 
Sect. II. Antennae of <$ serrate and fasciculate. 
N. endesma Lower (29 e). Forewing straw yellow, the interspaces suffused with golden brown to sub- endesma. 
terminal line; a diffused streak below costa and the veins white; subbasal line indistinctly double, waved 
from costa to submedian fold, a fine black streak from its lower end to inner line, which is double filled in 
with whitish, angled outwards below costa and in submedian fold, and again very strongly above inner margin, 
angled inwards on the veins; orbicular stigma minute, round, yellowish defined by black; reniform a somewhat 
K-shaped white mark defined by black, its lower end slightly angled inwards; outer line fine, black defined by 
yellowish-white externally, strongly bent outwards below costa, then strongly dentate and obhcpie; subter- 
minal line defined by black brown wedge-shaped marks internally; terminal line black brown; fringe with a 
row of small brown spots near base; hindwing white with a very faint tinge of brown, and slight cell spot. 
Parkside, S. Australia. Described from a $ only. 
N. cornuta Lower (29 e). Forewing grey suffused in parts with brown and strongly irrorated with black; cornuta. 
subbasal line black, externally white-edged; inner line double, waved, filled in with whitish, a black and white 
