456 NOTES ON THE GENUS PSVCIIOPSrS. 



l)rown, covered with a fine pubescence. Fore wing broad, rounded, 

 spotted along front margin with light brown, in centre towards 

 tips ornamented with an embossed irregular rounded blotch, 4 

 lines in diameter, deep yellowish-brown, clothed with ochreous 

 hairs, connected by a more ochreous-coloured transverse band 

 crossing to hind margin where, clothed with dark brown hairs, it 

 forms another irregular blotch, mottled with white, and a row of 

 tine bead-like spots on the transverse band; turning upward an 

 irregular ochreous band crosses hind portion of wing, enlarged 

 into another irregular blotch close to sides of thorax, also mottled 

 with grey and brown. Hindwings smaller, rounded, with a 

 rounded dark brown blotch in centre, towards tips of wings a 

 few small brown spots. Abdomen short, rounded, swelling out 

 at tip, and covered with grey hairs, thickest at the extremity. 

 The remarkable blotching of the forewings of this beautiful insect 

 might be likened to a drop of yellow varnish that had been 

 placed on the wing close to the thorax, allowed to run down along 

 the hind margin, and then turned up and allowed to remain on 

 the embossed centre. 



Hab. — Tambourine Mountain, Q, (R. Illidge; 2 specimens). 



I am indebted to Mr. C. French for the first specimen of this 

 beautiful insect. But I have since received a second from Mr. 

 Illidge, who informs me that both were taken flying to a lighted 

 lamp in the evening ; and that in the course of forty years' 

 collecting in Southern Queensland, he had never taken it before. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXL 



{Xofe. — The left-hand row, counting from the top, comprises figs. 1-5 

 the right-hand row, also counting from the top, comprises figs. 6-9). 



Figs. 1-2.-— PsycJiojxsis newmani, n.sp. 



