BY A. J. TURNER. 83 



9. Epidictica thiospila, n.sp. 

 [delov, sulphur; o-ttIXo?, a spot; with pale yellow spots.] 



(J. 27 mm. Head orange; face and palpi yellowish. Antennt\3 

 yellowish; towards base orange. Thorax dull purple-reddish; 

 collar and apex of teguhe pale yellow. Abdomen reddish. Legs 

 reddish. Forewings elongate-oval, costa rather strongly arched, 

 apex rounded, termen obliquely rounded ; dull purple- 

 reddish; edge of dorsum, of basal third of costa, and of apical 

 fourth of costa, orange; spots pale yellow; a large triangular spot 

 on costa near base; a smaller spot opposite this on dorsum; a 

 second costal spot at |; several small indistinct spots in posterior 

 part of disc ; a narrow pale yellow terminal band, its anterior 

 edge indented above middle; cilia pale yellow. Hindwings and 

 cilia reddish; veins 4 and 5 connate. 



Type in Coll. Walsingham. 



;N'.Q. Mackay; one specimen (Meek). 



10. Epidictica pilcheri. 



Calliyenia pilcheri. Luc, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 1891, p. 279. 



9. 20-22 mm. Head reddish-orange. Palpi reddish-orange. 

 Antennee blackish, near base reddish-orange. Thorax purple- 

 reddish; two spots on tegula? and a large posterior spot reddish- 

 orange; apices of patagia and a pair of lateral spots pale yellowish. 

 Abdomen reddish-orange. Legs blackish irrorated with reddish- 

 orange and whitish. Forewings elongate-oval, costa rather strongly 

 arched, apex rounded, termen obliquel}^ rounded; purple-reddish; 

 spots pale yellowish; those on costa and dorsum partly suffused 

 with reddish-orange; a large squarish spot on costa at \; a smaller 

 spot on costa at §; an elongate subtriangular spot on mid-dorsum, 

 preceded and followed by a small spot in disc; a small spot before 

 tornus, two termhial spots, and two or three dots in posterior 

 portion of disc; cilia reddish-orange, at tornus interrupted by 

 purple-reddish. Hindwings purple-reddish; basal \ and costa 

 reddish-orange; cilia purple-reddish, on tornus and inner margin 

 reddish-oranixe. 



