382 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, vi., 



costa touching green fascia: another fuscous spot on | costa; a 

 fuscous, oblique streak from beneath apex to green fascia near 

 dorsum i costal edge ochreous ; cilia grey. Hindwings with 

 termen rounded: colour as forewings; a transverse, green fascia 

 l)efore middle. Underside bright ochreous; forewings with a 

 dark red, posterior suffusion, a fuscous blotch on dorsum con- 

 nected with midcosta: fuscous spots on | costa and toinus, and 

 an oblique streaU as on upperside; hindwings with a fuscous, 

 median fascia, apical and tornal spots. 



Type in Coll. Lyell. 



Mr. Prout informs me that this is allied to, and may possibly 

 be a geogiaphical race of, H. cryptorhodntd V\\k. 



N.Q.: Cape York; one specimen. 



Gen. 32. Abraxas. 



Ahrcij-as Leach, Edin. Encycl., ix., p. 1 34,(1815); Meyr., Brit. 

 Lep., p.267; Hmps., Moths Ind., iii., p. 297. 



Type, A. grossulariata, from Europe. 



Face smooth. Tongue present. Antennae of ^ shortl}^ lamin- 

 ate, ciliated in fascicles. Palpi .short, slender, porrect, lough- 

 scaled, not hairy. Thorax hairy or glabrous beneath. Femora 

 glabrous; posterior tibi?e in $ dilated. Forewings in $ without 

 fovea: 10 and 11 stalked, 11 running into or anastomosing with 

 12, or absent; 10 .sometimes connected with 9. 



The Australian species differ from the type only in the absence 

 of hairiness on the underside of the thorax. The slender, short 

 palpi are characteristic. 

 1. With a row of yellow spots in terminal l)and of both wings Javimacula. 



Terminal band wholly fuscous expectata. 



117. Abraxas flavimacula. 



Potera flavimacula Warr.. Nov. Zool., 1896, p. 395. Chooree- 

 chilhim distitcms Luc, Proc. Roy. Soc. Qsld., 1901, p.73. 



(J9. 50-65 mm. Head orange, with two, posterior, dark fus- 

 cous dots, and sometimes another between antennse. Palpi short 

 (barely 1); dark fuscous, towards base ochreous. Antennae dark 

 fuscous; ciliations in ^ 1. Thorax dark fuscous; edges of 

 patagia, a bar behind middle, and posterior edge orange. Ab- 

 domen orange, each .segment with a terminal l)and thicker in 



