832 DESCRIPTIONS OP NEW AUSTRALIAN RHOPALOCERA, 



discal spot, as in $. Hind wings beneath light grey, mixed with 

 fuscous towards costa ; spots round, outlined with dark fuscous ; 

 one very small beneath costa at J, and a similar one in disc before 

 middle ; two dot-like, towards inner margin before middle ; seven 

 moderately large, placed in an acutely angulated post-median 

 transverse series. 



Port Lincoln, South Australia ; Geraldton, West Australia ; 

 in October and November, common. 



Tel. megalopis, n. sp. 



9. 34 mm. Head blackish, spotted with yellow-whitish. 

 Palpi yellow- whitish, apex blackish. Antennae black, spotted 

 with white beneath. Thorax and abdomen fuscous, somewhat 

 mixed with yellow-whitish. Fore wings with costa straight, hind- 

 margin almost straight, rather oblique ; dark fuscous, posterior 

 half rather lighter ; spots shining whitish-ochreous, thinly scaled ; 

 first moderate, irregular, in middle of disc ; second moderate, sub- 

 triangular, between veins 3 and 4 at base, nearly approaching 

 first ; third large, trapezoidal, placed beneath first and second and 

 only separated by a dark vein ; a cloudy roundish more yellowish- 

 tinged spot beneath anterior angle of this ; a cloudy yellowish 

 streak along middle third of inner margin ; three small oblong 

 sub-confluent spots placed in a transverse series beneath costa at 

 I : cilia fuscous, terminal half grey-whitish. Hindwings with 

 hindmargin rounded ; dark fuscous ; dorsal half with yellowish 

 hairs ; a moderately large subquadrate pale whitish-ochreous spot 

 in disc beyond and somewhat above middle ; a cloudy light 

 ochreous-yellowish suff"asion beneath anterior angle of this ; cilia 

 fuscous, terminal half grey- whitish. Fore wings beneath with 

 colour and mai-kings as above, but lighter. Hindwings beneath 

 rather light fuscous, towards inner margin somewhat suffused with 

 whitish-ochreous ; a small round white spot in middle of disc, 

 surrounded by a thick black ring, outside which is a narrow pale 

 whitish-ochreous sufiixsion w^hich is dilated into a moderately large 

 spot on posterior side. 



