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of tarsi yellow with white apex, second and third yellow with black 

 apex, second white at base, fourth and fifth white ; middle legs 

 yellow, tarsi white ; posterior legs white. Fore wings rather 

 elongate-triangular, costa posteriori}- moderately arched, apex 

 rectangular, hind margin bowed, oblique ; bright yellow ; a 

 crimson dot beneath costa near base, a second at one-fifth, and a 

 third on inner margin at one-fifth ; lines very slender, indistinct, 

 ferruginous, irregularly sinuate ; first from a black dot on costa at 

 one-fourth to inner margin at two-fifths ; second from a dark 

 fuscous dot on costa before two-thirds, below middle bent inwards 

 to beneath middle of disc, thence again bent to inner margin at 

 three-fifths ; a large irregularly 8-shaped crimson spot in centre of 

 disc, touching angle of second line; a moderate crimson waved 

 submarginal band, attenuated to a point on costa, its middle third 

 curved outwards and partially touching subterminal line ; a fine 

 crimson waved subterminal line, and an interrupted crimson hind- 

 marginal line, separated by ferruginous-yellow ; cilia silvery-white, 

 basal third crimson, separated by a waved deep crimson line. 

 Hind wings with colour, second line, submarginal band, sub- 

 terminal and hind-marginal lines, and cilia as in fore wings. 



Cape York, Queensland ; one specimen (coll. Macleay). 

 Also from Ceylon. Mr. Moore quotes Samea dives, 

 Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1880, 682, from Formosa, as a 

 synonym of this species ; but, although he has probably 

 seen Butler's type, and I have not, I think there must 

 be a mistake somewhere, as I cannot make the descrip- 

 tion agree at all ; for instance, the cilia are given as 

 dark brown. 



Mecyna, Gn. 



Mecyna polygonalis, Hb. 



Also from Glen Innes (4500 feet), Newcastle, Bathurst, 

 and Mount Kosciusko (6500 feet), New South Wales ; 

 Albany, Geraldton, and Perth, West Australia. 



Mecyna reversalis, Gn. 



Mecyna reversalis, Gn., 409. 



Cape York, Queensland ; one specimen (coll. Macleay). 

 Also from North and South America. The occurrence 

 of this species in Australia seems difficult to believe ; 

 but there can be no question as to the identity of the 

 specimen, which is easily distinguishable from any form 



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