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to the hind border, and with six large dark red spots which occupy 

 the spaces between the furrows ; hind-scutcheon tawny on each side 

 and on the hind border, rounded and much widened at the base of 

 each fore-wing, excavated on each side where the tawny border is 

 interrupted, serrated towards the front ; its hind border is very 

 slightly concave towards each side, nearer which it is convex by rea- 

 son of its unusual widening at the base of the fore-wing: scutcheon 

 of the middle-chest adorned with four dark red obconical stripes, the 

 inner pair much shorter than the outer pair, interniediate space black ; 

 sides, hind borders and cross-ridge tawny, a pitchy mark on each 

 side of the latter just above the cross ; hind border slightly excavated : 

 abdomen obconical, hardly longer than the chest, adorned before 

 the middle with a broad black band which is widest on each side ; 

 tip tawny: drums of moderate size, slightly overla)>ping, black with 

 pale tawny borders, full one-third of the length of the alulonien : 

 legs pitchy ; hips with pale yellow streaks and tips; fore-thighs dark 

 red, armed with two long teeth ; middle-shanks adorned with a pale 

 tawny spot near the base ; hind-shanks pale pitchy, pale tawny be- 

 neath ; hind-feet pale tawny with pitchy tips ; claws black: wings 

 colourless, ferruginous and marked with black at the base ; veins 

 pale tawny, darker towards the tips ; primitive areolet tawny ; brands 

 brown ; cross-veins clouded with brown ; a row of large brown spots 

 on the tips of the longitudinal veins of the submarginal areolets ; 

 fore border tawny ; fore-membrane gray ; flaps buff at the base. 



Fern. — Oviduct dark red, black and serrated. 



Length of the body 13 lines; of the wings 36 lines. 



Var. /3. Mas. — Under side of the abdomen dark ferruginous. 



a — c. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 

 d — f. Swan River. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



30. FiDICINA INTERSECTA, MaS. 



Nervus transversals \ns fere rectus, ohliquus, angulurn obtusum 

 fingens, 2o plus triplb ejus hmgitudine divisus ; 2us sitbcur- 

 vus, ohliquus, angulujii ubtusum fingens, lo paullb longior ; 

 3us subundatus, obliquus, angulurn vix acutum fingens ; 4us 

 subundatus, obliquiis, angulurn subacutiDn fingens. 



Nearly allied to F. internata, but the third cross-vein joins the 

 fore longitudinal vein after the fork in that species, and l)efore the 

 fork in F. intersecta. Second marginal areolet more than two-thirds 

 of the length of the first: first cross-vein nearly straight, slanting, 

 forming an obtuse angle, parted from the second by more than thrice 

 its length ; second slightly curved, very slanting, forming a very ob- 



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