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short of both costa and hinder margin, both edged on each side with 

 brown, the bands are well separated and parallel to the outer 

 margin and to each other and have a semi-macular appearance as if 

 formed of so many connected lunulas, outer and hinder margins with 

 a brown band, cilia white. Underside of a uniform reddish colour 

 with the white bands of the fore-wings showing through. 



Expanse of wings 4^0 inches. 

 a. Swan River (type) (Curteis). 



1339. Charagia hectori. 



Charagia hectori. Butler: P. Z. S., Lond,, 1877, p. 380. 

 Type. North Island, New Zealand, in B. M. 

 a. South Island, New Zealand (2). 



Genus PIELUS. Walker: vii. 1576(1856). 

 Trictena. Meyrick : Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. W., 1890, p. 1135. 



1340. Pielus tasmaniSB. 



Pielus tastiianiiz. Walker: vii. 1577 (1S56). 

 Type. Van Diemen's Land, in B. M. 

 a. Queensland (2). b. New Holland (2). 



1341. Pielus labyrinthicus. 



Pielus labyrinthicus. Don, : Epit. Ins. New Holl., pi. 38 (1S05). 



Boisd. : Voy. de rAstrolabe, i. Lep. 236. 3 (1832). 



Walker: vii. 1577 (1856). 



Trictena labyrinthicus. Meyrick: Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. W., 1890, 



p. II35- 



Cossus argenteus. Don. : Epit. Ins. New Holl., pi. 38 (1805^ 



Boisd.: Voy. de I'Astrolabe, i. Lep. 237. 4 (1832). 



Epiolus argenteus. Herr Schaff. : Lep. Exot. Sp., i. pi. 41, f. 47, 48 (1853). 

 Pielus atripalpus. Walker: vii. 1577 (1856). 



Type {atripalpus). Van Diemen's Land, in B. M. 



a. Van Diemen's Land (5). b. Swan River. c. New 



Holland (2). d. Queensland. e. King George's Sound. 



f. Australia (2). 



1342. Pielus hydrographus. 



Pielus hydrographus. Felder : Reise Nov. Lep., pi. 80, f. 3 (1868). 

 a. Swan River. 



Felder's plate represents a female ; the Swan River specimen is a 

 male, and is exactly similar in markings to the plate, and though allied 

 to P. labyrinthicus (Don.), which is a variable species, this seems to 

 be separate. 



1343. Pielus albofasciatus. n. sp. 



6 ? Head, thorax, and fore-wings brown tinged with pinkish ; fore- 

 wings with the usual crenulations, a broad white longitudinal stripe 



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