754 KEVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



species with rosy hindwings, by the conspicuous equidistant costal 

 spots, absence of costal basal streak and of median and submedian 

 streaks, and by the dark spots of cilia. 



Lizard Island, off Cape Flattery, Queensland ; one specimen 

 (Coll. Macleay). 



93. Spil. fulvohirta, Walk. 



(Ardices fulvohirta, Walk. Bomb. 710; Spilosoma subocellatum, 

 ib. 1697 ; S. conferta, ib. Suppl. 295.) 



£ Q. 46-63 mm. Head white, face blackish. Palpi rosy, base 

 and apex fuscous. Antennae blackish. Thorax white or ochreous- 

 white, shoulders narrowly red, a short stripe on patagia and central 

 more or less complete stripe dark fuscous. Abdomen yellow, 

 ochreous-orange, or red, with dorsal row of large transverse black 

 spots, and lateral rows of small spots, beneath whitish, sometimes 

 banded with black, sometimes wholly black except reddish-white 

 segmental margins. Legs dark fuscous, femora red. Forewings 

 elongate-triangular, costa almost straight, apex obtuse, hindmargin 

 rather obliquely rounded ; white ; markings fuscous, somewhat 

 darker-margined ; five variable irregular fasciae, interrupted by 

 white lines on veins, and an irregular sometimes interrupted dorsal 

 streak from base to middle ; first and second fasciae angulated, 

 sometimes suffused together and with third below middle ; third 

 from costa beyond middle to inner margin beyond middle, sinuate, 

 containing a variable white spot above middle ; fourth and fifth 

 irregularly confluent above middle, fifth sometimes broken and 

 confused, third and fourth sometimes confluent ; sometimes a hind- 

 marginal row of small spots : cilia white, partly barred with 

 fuscous on basal half. Hindwings white ; a roundish fuscous 

 discal spot before middle ; a variable subterminal fuscous fascia or 

 series of spots ; some scattered irregular fuscous dots on hind- 

 margin ; cilia white. 



Very like the following in some forms, but always distinguished 

 from it by the dark fuscous stripes of thorax. 



Queensland ; Sydney, New South Wales ; Melbourne, Victoria ; 

 Tasmania ; Albany, West Australia ; common, in October. 



