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with steely-blue scales; the face, thorax, and abdomen id' ah. conciniia are all 

 darker brown. 



Expanse of wings : c? 28 mm. ; ? 30 mm. ; the examples of connexa from 

 the same locality expand, cf 30 mm. ; ? 32 mm. ; while the type c? from the 

 Augabunga River was 34 mm. The ¥ from this last locality, wrongly referred 

 to connexa, measures 30 mm., and so does one of the lately received ¥ ? from Biagi. 



In the description of connexa the smaller yellow costal blotch near base was 

 stated to reach the median vein, like the onter ; this is trne, as a rule, of the ¥ ? 

 only ; in the <$ d of both forms the smaller blotch is usually prolonged, but more 

 narrowly, to the submedian vein. 



172. Plutodes separata spec. nov. and ab. pallidior now 



3. Foreiring : pale yellow ; a small rounded blotch at base of inner margin 

 dark red-brown edged with black, and a large oval blotch in outer half of wing, 

 irregularly edged externally, and traversed by a dark curved line with paler red 

 beyond it ; fringe yellow. 



Hindwing : with the basal blotch extended linearly along vein 1 nearly to 

 anal angle ; the larger blotch roughly semicircular, and much smaller than that 

 in forewing. 



In the ¥ the blotches are all somewhat larger, especially that along inner 

 margin of hindwing, and grey-brown ; in both sexes the dark edging lines bear 

 lustrous steely scales. 



Underside paler, the brown blotches showing through. 



Face and dorsum red-browu ; thorax dark brown in the c? , grey-brown in 

 the ¥ ; shoulders and vertex yellow ; abdomen in <? ringed with blackish, with the 

 anal tuft yellow. 



Expanse of wings : S 26 — 28 mm. ; ¥ 30 mm. 



2 c?(?, 3 ¥¥. 



4<?(? differ from the type exactly as P. connexa differs from its darker form 

 concinna, having the markings paler red-brown, edged with ferruginous only and 

 with paler lustrous scales, for which I propose the name pallidior. 



Subfamily ABRAXINAE. 

 173. Abraxas omissa spec. nov. 



Fore/cinq : white ; the costal and outer margins broadly and evenly black, 

 united by an angled bar crossing the discocellnlar, angled on the median vein and 

 limited below by vein 2 ; fringe black. 



Hindwing : white, with a narrower uniformly enrved black border from before 

 apex to anal angle : base narrowly black. 



Underside like upper. 



Head and antennae black ; collar, shoulders, patagia, and thorax black edged 

 with orange ; abdomen orange with a row of large saddle-shaped black marks on 

 dorsum, close together in t? and actually confluent in the ¥, so that the whole 

 dorsum is black except at anal segment ; beneath orange with two lateral and 

 two ventral series of large black spots ; legs black ; femora and pectus orange. 



Expanse of wings : 46 mm. 



1 S, 1 ¥. 



Very near to A, expectata from N. Queensland. 



