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apex steely-metallic ; sixth and seventh, close before apex, short, 

 yellow ; eight small roundish steely-metallic violet-tinged spots, 

 first just beyond middle of disc, second between first and anal 

 angle, third and fourth beneath extremities of third and fourth 

 costal streaks, fifth on anal angle (these last three are in a 

 straight line), sixth, seventh, and eighth on hind-margin, eighth 

 being just below apex of seventh costal streak ; cilia yellowish, 

 with a strong black apical hook, basal half separated by a 

 blackish line and clothed with dark fuscous scales, except where 

 a yellowish black-margined indentation meets the eighth spot on 

 hind-margin. Hind-wings and cilia dark fuscous. 



Instantly recognisable from all others by the two conspicuous 

 yellow dorsal spots. A handsome and common species, appearing 

 in October and again much more plentifully in March ; it occurs 

 freely on dry grassy banks round Sydney and Parramatta, and 

 also at Melbourne ; specimens from the latter place appear 

 somewhat larger ; it flies readily in the afternoon towards sunset. 



Glyph, leucocerastes, n. sjp. 



$. 4". Head, thorax, and antennae dark bronzy-fuscous. 

 Palpi white at base, second joint with two obKque whorls of 

 black ochreous-whitish-tipped scales, terminal joint black with 

 two ochreous-whitish rings. Abdomen dark fuscous, apex white. 

 Legs dark fuscous, anterior and middle tarsi with slender whitish 

 rings at apex of joints, middle tibiae with very oblique slender 

 white central and apical rings ; posterior tibiae with slender white 

 central and apical bands, posterior tarsi with first joint white at 

 base, two apical joints wholly white. Fore-wings moderately 

 dilated, hind-margin sinuate beneath apex ; dark fuscous, almost 

 blackish ; two conspicuous clear white semilunate spots on inner 

 margin, first near base, second hardly beyond middle, each 

 reaching half across wing, their apices curved towards apex of 

 wing, that of second attenuated ; six slender oblique white 

 streaks from costa ; first at \ ; second before middle, very 



