BY E. MEYRICK, B.A. 429 



? . 47 mm. Head golden-yellow, sides o£ face and back of 

 crown carmine-pink. (Palpi broken.) Antennae blackish- grey, 

 becoming carmine-pink at base. Thorax carmine-pink. Abdomen 

 whitish-yellow. Legs whitish-yellow, anterior tibise and tarsi 

 above carmine-pink suffused with dark grey ; middle tibise above 

 carmine-pink with a broad suffused pale yellow median band, 

 tarsi carmine- pink. (Posterior legs broken). Porewings broad, 

 costa very strongly and evenly arched, apex bluntly rectangular, 

 hindmargin obliquely rounded ; uniform glossy carmine-pink ; 

 costal edge from near base almost to apex, and dorsal edge from 

 middle of inner margin to middle of hindmargin very slenderly 

 yellow- whitish ; a well-defined slender pale yellow line along fold 

 from base to anal angle ; base of wing above this line suffusedly 

 yellow ; a straight longitudinal pale yellow line through middle 

 of disc from 3 almost to hindmargin beneath apex : cilia pale 

 carmine-pink, darker at apex, becoming orange along costa ; 

 under surface of cilia with a blackish apical spot. Hind wings 

 ovate, hindmargin rounded ; whitish-yellow, posteriorly carmine- 

 tinged, apex carmine-pink ; cilia whitish-yellow, becoming carmine- 

 pink round apex, with a blackish- grey apical spot. 



This very striking and beautiful species is prominently dis- 

 tinguished by its very large size, and shining carmine-pink fore- 

 wings ; the rounded hindmargin is peculiar in the genus. 



I only possess one specimen, which I received through the 

 kindness of Dr. J. C. Cox, who believes it to have been taken 

 near Sydney. The British Museum has several specimens, 

 supposed to come from the same place. 



I have not been able to refer to Wing's original description, 

 and have had to rely on the identification of Walker, who can 

 however hardly have gone wrong in this case. 



3. JPalp. hesperidella, n. sp. 



Magna, alis ant. margine postico sinuato, flavis, spatio costali 

 antice roseo ; post, albidis, apice flavido. 



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