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I have not seen a £, but according to Warren the antennae in 

 this sex are lamellate, and there is a fovea in the forewing. 



181. Tessarotis rubra. 



Tessarotis rubra, Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., 1903, p.270. 



Q. 29-32 mm. Head whitish, suffused with rosy purple and 

 mixed with dark fuscous on crown. Palpi li; rosy-purple. An- 

 tennae fuscous. Thorax whitish-rosy; apices of patagia and a 

 posterior spot dark brown. Abdomen dark brown, with a median 

 white line crossing five transverse lines on apices of segments. 

 Legs dark fuscous; tibiae annulated with ochreous-whitish. Fore- 

 wings with costa straight, arched shortly before apex, apex 

 rectangular, termen obtusely angled on vein 4, straight on costal 

 side of angle, slightly concave on tornal side, dorsum much shorter 

 than termen; 10 and 11 arising separately, 10 anastomosing with 

 11 and 9 (l£), or connected with 9 (1$); dark brown, toward 

 apex paler; a broad, whitish-rosy, costal streak from base to -;}, 

 gradually attenuated; a fine white line from beneath | costa to | 

 dorsum; a short, transverse, dark fuscous discal mark; a second 

 white line from beneath f costa to 4 dorsum, strongly bowed out- 

 wards: a third similar line from £ costa, roughly parallel, but 

 approximated as it nears dorsum; longitudinal white streaks on 

 veins 3 and 4 crossing last two lines; the first of these ends in a 

 small white blotch connected with a white streak on termen 

 from beneath angle nearly to tornus; two short rows of dark 

 fuscous dots before upper part of termen; cilia dark brown, apices 

 whitish. Hindwings with termen acutely angled and produced 

 on vein 7, thence straight to tornus; grey-brown with dark fuscous 

 irroration; a basal whitish suffusion to 4j a whitish line from apex 

 of suffusion to -g dorsum; a clear white discal dot before middle; 

 an imperfect double row of dark fuscous subterminal dots; cilia 

 dark brown, apices whitish except on angle. Underside grey with 

 postmedian and subterminal fuscous lines and a white discal dot 

 on hindwings. 



N.Q.: Mackay. — Q.: Brisbane, in November and March; two 

 specimens. 



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