BY A. J. TURNER. 87 



Legs pale yellowish suffused with reddish; anterior pair reddish, 

 basal half of tibiae and first joint of tarsus pale yellow on external 

 surface. Forewings elongate-ovate, costa rather strongly arched, 

 apex rounded, termen obliquely rounded; pale yellow with red 

 lines along veins; two strong oblique purple-grey lines; first from 

 costa at I to inner margin near base, narrowly interrupted near 

 costa; second from beneath costa near apex to inner margin at |, 

 dilated on inner margin and connected with first fascia in disc, 

 its costal half being represented by short streaks on veins; in 

 addition to red lines on veins there are a bisecting line and several 

 other lines in cell, and a line along inner margin, and at base of 

 costa; cilia red, apices pale yellowish. Hindwings and cilia pale 

 reddish; in 9 deep reddish; veins 3 and 4 short-stalked in ^J, 

 closely approximated in 5. 



A series including the type in Coll. Walsingham. 



N.Q. Cedar Bay, near Cook town (Meek). 



There appears to be a constant sexual difference in the colour- 

 ation of the hindwings and abdomen. 



15. Lactura mactata. 



[Mactatus, honoured.] 



Mieza mactata, F. and R., Reise Nov. pi. cxxxix. fig. 44. 



(J^. 19-20 mm. Head pale yellow, centre of crown reddish; 

 face whitish. Palpi whitish; external surface of second joint 

 reddish. Antenno3 red. Thorax pale yellow, margins of tegulte 

 and patagia and a broad central stripe not reaching posterior 

 extremity red. Abdomen reddish, beneath whitish. Legs pale 

 yellow tinged with reddish; anterior pair mostly red. Forewings 

 elongate-ovate, costa rather strongly arched, apex rounded, 

 termen obliquely rounded, pale yellow with red streaks along 

 veins, and additional longitudinal red streaks in disc; two narrow 

 oblique purple-grey fasciie; first from dorsum at J- towards but 

 scarcely reaching costa at I; second from dorsum at J nearly to 

 apex, interrupted in disc, with two narrow processes anteriorl}-, 



