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PAPERS READ. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



WITH ADDITIONAL LOCALITIES FOR 



KNOWN SPECIES. 



By Thomas P. Lucas, M.R.C.S., Eng., L.S.A., Lond., L.R.C.P. 



& M., Ed. 



I have to thank Mr. Meyrick for his continued kindness and 

 assistance in determining the genus in many instances, and for 

 comparing specimens in the British Museum, &c. I have also to 

 thank Mr. Illidge, Dr. Turner, and Messrs. Meek, jun., and 

 Barnard for their great assistance and loan of specimens. 



It is most interesting to note the large number of species found 

 at Geraldton, N. Queensland, common to Ceylon ; the species 

 generally are of Indian and Malayan types. 



Group SPHINGID^, Family SESIAD^. 

 Sesia igniflua, sp.nov. 



(J9- 14-15 mm. Head, palpi, and antennae black, frontal lim 

 golden tinted with blue. Thorax tire-coloured, bordered laterally 

 and posteriorly with black. Abdomen black, with base of segments 

 yellowish- white, those of centre segments most conspicuous. 

 Forewings very narrow, somewhat club-shaped, costa straight, 

 ai)ical half rounded, apex and hindmargin rounded, fire-coloured 

 sparingly tinted with blue, a spot at base black, submedian and 

 transverse veins black, and at ^ costa a black streak begins in 

 scattered dots, but broadens at | to form a marginal band and to 

 enclose a fire- coloured subapical spot, in some specimens the black 



