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below costa, then oblique and sinuous; orbicular absent; reniform a black lunule with its lower extremity 
produced to outer line, some whitish beyond it; outer line black, outwardly defined by whitish, double at 
costa, below which it is bent outwards, minutely waved, and somewhat incurved below vein 4; subterminal 
line slight, greyish, with dark suffusion and some dentate dark marks before it at middle; hindwing greyish 
suffused with yellowish brown; underside whitish tinged with ochreous, with a large apical blackish patch 
extending to discal fold. S. Australia, W. Australia, Tasmania. 
N. flexirena Walk. (29 1). Forewing grey suffused with fuscous brown and with slight fuscous irroration, flexirena. 
the basal area pale grey; subbasal line black, straight; inner line black, oblique, almost straight; orbicular stigma 
a black dot ringed with ochreous; reniform a black lunule, with its lower extremity produced to outer line, 
a greyish patch beyond it; outer line slight, externally edged with grey; subterminal line greyish, with 
some dark suffusion on inner side; a fine black terminal line with greyish striae on inner side; hindwing greyish 
suffused with fuscous brown, paler at base; in ab. concolor ab. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmjjs.) the basal area of forewing concolor. 
is not paler than the rest of wing. Queensland; X. S. Wales. 
N. adelopa Lower (29 1). Forewing fuscous grey thickly irrorated will black, the terminal area fuscous; adelopa. 
a subbasal black costal spot; inner line oblique and waved, angled outwards on submedian fold, with a black 
costal spot; reniform stigma an oblique blackish lunule with a small rufous lunule on its outer edge; a waved 
bent median line; outer line waved, outbent below costa, incurved on discal fold and more strongly below 
vein 4; subterminal indistinct; hindwing dark fuscous; underside grey, the costal area dusted with black; a 
small black cellspot; terminal area blackish, deeper towards apex. Gisborne, Victoria. Abdomen of J with large 
exsertible lateral tufts from base above the stigmata. 
N. nycteris Trnr. (31 a). Forewing grey almost wholly suffused with fuscous brown; a black point at nycteris. 
base; subbasal line black, externally grey-edged, waved to submedian fold; inner line double filled in with grey, 
oblique, dentate; orbicular stigma a white dot ringed with fuscous; reniform a narrow blackish lunule; outer 
line grey-edged externally, outbent below costa, denticulate, incurved below vein 4; subterminal line indicated 
by some whitish marks preceded by small dentate black marks; the terminal interspaces with slight black streaks 
and white points just before termen; hindwing greyish wholly suffused with brown. Emu Plains, N. S. Wales. 
N. basisticha Trnr. (31 a). Forewing greyish suffused with redbrown and fuscous and irrorated with basisticha. 
black; subbasal line slight, black and waved; a black streak below the cell to inner line, which is double, waved, 
oblique, angled inwards on median vein and vein 1; orbicular stigma a white dot ringed with black scales; 
reniform formed of two bars of whitish and black scales; outer line indistinct, double minutely waved, incurved 
beyond cell fold, oblique below vein 4; interspaces of terminal area with slight black streaks; subterminal line 
pale, defined by some fuscous on inner side towards costa; minute black terminal dots; hindwing white uni¬ 
formly tinged with brown. Brisbane, Queensland. 
N. striolata Btlr. (29 1). Forewing whitish tinged with red brown and irrorated with purplish fuscous, siriolata. 
the costal area whiter; subbasal line indicated by blackish dots on costa and median vein with another beyond 
them in cell; inner line blackish, angled outwards on subcostal vein and in submedian fold, and inwards on 
median vein and vein 1; orbicular stigma defined by slight black points; reniform small, edged with black, 
with some white scales round it; outer line blackish, oblique from costa to vein 7, then minutely waved and 
with black points on the veins, incurved on submedian fold and angled outwards on vein 1; a subterminal series 
of black streaks on veins 8 to 4, longer on 6, 5 extending to outer line; terminal black dots; hindwing white. 
Fiji; described from a single £• 
N. acallis Trnr. (29 1). Forewing greyish ochreous with slight dark dusting; a brown shade through acallis. 
the cell expanding at termen to apex and vein 2; a black dot in cell near base; orbicular stigma small, round, 
ochreous with small black spots on its inner and outer sides; reniform small, very indistinct, with ill-defined 
black streaks on the veins beyond it; terminal black dots; hindwing white tinged with ochreous towards costa. 
Brisbane and Cairns, Queensland. 
N. melanographa Trnr. (31 a). Forewing grey very slightly tinged with pale red brown and sparsely melano- 
irrorated with black; some black scales at base below cell; an oblique black subbasal striga from costa; inner line orapha, 
black, interrupted, oblique and denticulate, strongly angled inwards on vein 1; reniform stigma represented 
by some black points and scales; outer line black, outbent below costa, excurved and produced to short streaks 
beyond cell, then incurved and angled outwards on vein 1; terminal area tinged with fuscous; subterminal 
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