BY A. J. TURNER. 637 



Forewiugs triangular, costa slightly arched, apex rounded, ter- 

 nien bowed, oblique, crenulate; whitish more or less irrorated 

 and suffused with dark fuscous, pale reddish, and often with 

 greenish; lines distinct, blackish, antemedian sometimes preceded 

 and postmedian succeeded l)y a fuscous suffusion, leaving a pale 

 median area; antemedian line slightly outwardly curved, crenu- 

 late, from I costa to \ dorsum; postmedian sinuate, dentate, 

 from § costa to slightly beyond mid-dorsum; a linear dai'k discal 

 mark, outwardly oblique, beneath midcosta; a whitish, much 

 dentate, subterminal line; a blackish terminal line, often inter- 

 rupted and thickened into dots between veins; cilia whitish with 

 pale reddish or greenish suffusion, and some dark fuscous irrora- 

 tion. Hindwings with termen rounded, dentate; colour and 

 markings as foi'ewings but without antemedian line; with tufts 

 of raised scales before middle of disc, and on dorsum; dorsal cilia 

 orauge-ochreous. Underside of forewiugs with base suffused 

 with purple-reddish; a bright orange subcostal streak reaching 

 to middle; a ti'iangular median white blotch including a large 

 roundish discal sj)ot; a broa<l dark fuscous terminal band includ- 

 ing a subterminal series of white dots. Underside of forewings 

 bright orange bordered by a median whitish transverse line; 

 sometimes preceded by an elliptical blackish discal spot, but this 

 is usually completely absent; a broad terminal dark fuscous band, 

 mixed with whitish on termen; cilia whitish. 



Very variable in the coloration of the upper surface, but 

 always recognisable by the under side. 



N.A.: Port Darwin, 10 — N.Q.: Prince of Wales I.sland, 5, 6; 

 Thursday Island; Cape York, 8; Cooktown; Cairns; Kuranda, 3, 

 5; Card well; Dunk Island; Stannary Hills; Herberton — Q. : 

 Gympie; Brisbane, 1. Also from New Guinea. 



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^ 105. Tehpna muscosaria. 



Hy]Mchroma muscosaria Gn., Lep. ix. p. 281, Pl.vi., f.3; Meyr., 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1887, p.912 : Hypochroma cetraria 

 Feld., Rnise Nov., PI. 125, f.7; Hypochroma squamata Feld , Reise 

 Nov.,Pl.l26, f.U. 



