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black spots, whicli become smaller and scarcer towards the apex of the wing ; before 

 middle of cell there is an ill-defined black patch which penetrates into the cell ; 

 another, smaller, ]>atch midway between the first and tlie ajiex of the cell ; outside 

 the second patch a black dot : a siibmarginal row of elongate black patches between 

 veins 2 and 8, the posterior one the longest : hinder margin with transverse black 

 lines, about six to eight in basal half, twelve to fourteen in outer half, the latter 

 lines either connected with one another b)- means of two irregular longitudinal lines, 

 or more or less merged together : behind the middle of vein Ic, where there stands 

 a black stripe in Utiirattis, is a space bare of black lines ; outside this white j)atch 

 is an elongate black mark of 3 mm. lengtli and 1 mm. breadth ; npper half of cell 

 with very few minute black linear spots ; all the cellules with black transverse 

 irregular lines, fewer in number than in lititratus, mostly joined to each other along 

 the middle line of tlie cellules ; end of veins witli square blackish brown spots. 



Hindwing nearly as in litiiratits ; abdominal margin, especially at anal angle, 

 more extended white ; black network of lines less dense, with square blackish brown 

 spots at the ends of the veins. 



Underside : similar to upperside, but disc of forewing brown, and the blackish 

 brown areas present on the n])perside of the hindwing between cell ami liiiuliM- margin 

 and Ijetweeu cell and api^x of wing less strongly marked. 



Antennae scaled white above, twenty-seven joints with lateral liranches, forty 

 joints simple ; branches blackish, fine liairs of underside grey (in liturntus about 

 fortv-five joints have lateral processes, and forty joints are simple ; tine hairs of 

 underside of branches with a yellowish tint). Head greyish white (in fresh specimens 

 of Uturatus ochraceons), black close to the eyes and at anterior margin. Prothorax 

 and patagia grey, densely mixed with brown ; mesothorax whitish laterally, with 

 two black bands bordering a pale brown median area ; no white median line. 

 Abdomen much more grey than in Uturatus. Breast, underside of abdomen, and 

 legs white ; anterior coxae, upperside of anterior tibiae, part of middle tibiae, and 

 all the tarsi brown, the latter obviously ringed white. 



?. Resembles the S, but the white discal spaces of the forewing are much 

 overpowdered with black scales, and the black costal patches are more extended. 

 Hindwing brown all over, except costal region as far as covered by forewing ; anal 

 margin and interspaces between the very prominent brown square spots at the ends 

 of the veins whitish grey. Sides of mesothorax darker than in <S ; abdomen scaled 

 grey and brown. 



Varies in size like Uturatus. The posterior angle of the forewing is somewhat 

 less rounded than in Uturatus, and the hindwing is slightly narrower. 



Ildb. Brisbane district, Queensland ; a good series of both sexes. 



This species is often confounded with Uturatus in collections. 



4. Xyleutes pulchra Bothsch. (Pi. VII. fig. 3, J; 4, ?). 



This species 1 described from {\w female in Nov. Zool. 111. p. 232 (1890). I 

 have now received a small mule which has been obtained, together with several ? ? , 

 out of the same kind of tree. This male differs, as the figures show, from the ? 

 especially in the absence of the discal patch of black spots from the forewing and 

 in the darker hindwing and abdomen. The male antennae consist of about sixty 

 joints, of which the last thirty are devoid of lateral processes. 



Ilab. Brisbane district, Queensland ; the male bred November 1890. 



