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N. porphyrescens Lower (29 h). Forewing purplish red brown slightly dusted with fuscous; inner line porphyres- 
double; orbicular and reniform stigmata represented by reddish ochreous dots; a median shade from lower cens ' 
angle of cell to inner margin; outer line obscure, minutely dentate; subterminal line defined by a sinuous black 
shade on its inner edge; fringe dark brown; hindwing pale brown, darker terminally; fringe with the tips white. 
Melbourne, Victoria. Described from a single <jh 
N. bistrigula Walk. (29 h). Forewing ferruginous brown mixed with white and suffused with purple; Usirigula. 
an oblique white sid)basal striga from costa; inner line whitish, oblique and waved; orbicular stigma a whitish 
dot; reniform an ochreous white lunule inwardly defined by blackish, with a whitish striga before its upper 
part, its lower extremity produced to a point and angled; a sinuous dark median line; outer line dark ex¬ 
ternally edged by grey white, outbent below costa, then oblique, lunulate dentate; subterminal line greyish 
white; terminal black striae; hindwing pale redbrown; the underside white dusted with brown; terminal area 
suffused with brown, and with diffuse dark apical patch. Described from a single $ from “Australia”. 
N. capularis Guen. (= ignobilis Walk., instipata Walk., congregata Walk., lunifera Walk., verecunda capularis. 
Walk., cinctipes Flclr., derosa Morr.) (29 h). Forewing grey irrorated with dark brown mixed with white; sub- 
basal line interrupted, double, black filled in with whitish; inner line double, black filled in with whitish, oblique 
and waved; orbicular small, round, white ringed with black; reniform a pale reddish lunule with black edges; 
a sinuous black median line; outer line double, black, outbent below costa, then denticulate, oblique and 
angled inwards on submedian fold; subterminal line defined inwardly by blackish, with small dentate marks 
before it in middle; terminal black striae; hindwing grey brown. N. S. Wales; Victoria; S. Australia; Tas¬ 
mania. The type of derosa was wrongly described as from New Jersey. 
N. comma Walk. (— implexa Walk., plusiata Walk., bicomma Guen.) (29 i). Fore wing pale grey brown; comma. 
subbasal line double, waved; inner line double, waved, oblique, angled outwards in submedian fold; orbicular 
stigma a white black-ringed dot; reniform ochreous white edged with black, with a blackish line in centre 
expanding into a patch below, its lower extremity produced; a sinuous median line excurved in cell; outer 
line double, outbent below costa, then denticulate, oblique and angled inwards on submedian fold; subterminal 
line brown with some dentate black marks before it; hindwing reddish brown; the $ has the head, thorax, 
and forewing blackish glossed with grey, the last with less prominent markings. Larva dark brown tinged with 
pink, paler on subdorsal area, a series of oblique black streaks on each segment; the thoracic segments darker; 
feeding on various lowgrowing plants. New Zealand, where it appears well distributed. 
N. atra Guen. (29 i). Forewing black brown with a greyish gloss; inner line blackish, waved, oblique; atra. 
orbicular stigma minute, round, ochreous white, ringed with black; reniform a small ochreous brown lunule 
edged with black, with slight dark line in centre and diffused dark shade before it, its lower extremity produced 
to a point; median line sinuous, indistinct; outer line blackish, outbent below costa, denticulate, inangled on 
submedian fold; subterminal dark, with slight black streak before it at middle; hindwing fuscous brown with a 
grey tinge; underside whitish, dusted and suffused with brown, with slight cellspot, curved outer line, and 
apical black patch. This species is subject to variation; in ab. albipuncfa ah. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) there is albipuncia. 
a white point at lower end of reniform, while the lines and markings are more distinct. — ab. lucifera Walk, lucifera. 
(29 k) has the whole reniform white; — in testaceicollis Guen. (29 k) the tegulae are whitish, tinged with rufous; testacei- 
in the next two forms the hind wings are whitish with the veins and markings tinged with brown; in ab. cine- co ^ w - . 
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reicollis Guen. {— collaris Walk.) the tegulae are grey; the forewing black with the markings prominent; while 
in ab. restituta Guen. the tegulae are concolorous, the forewing greyish fuscous with the markings obsolescent, rcstiiuta. 
Queensland; N. S. Wales; S. Australia; Tasmania. 
N. microdes Lower. Forewing fuscous mixed with rufous grey; subbasal line black, edged outwardly microdes. 
with grey, excurved below costa to submedian fold, in which there is a slight fulvous streak beond it; inner 
line black, internally grey edged,, oblique and wavy; orbicular stigma fulvous ringed with black; reniform a 
small white lunule, defined by black and fulvous, its lower extremity produced; a diffused oblique blackish 
median line; outer line black, externally grey edged, outbent below costa, then oblique, denticulate, incurved 
on submedian fold; subterminal line greyish, with some fuscous on inner edge, and black and fulvous streaks 
before it in middle; a row of terminal black points; hindwing grey tinged with reddish brown; underside 
white, with a diffused brown apical patch extending to cellfold; in the $ the forewing is more uniform in 
colour, the markings indistinct, the reniform with centre brown. Broken Hill, N. S. Wales 
