NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 69 



brownish black, with long yellow hairs. Abdomen brownishj 

 black, yellow laterally and on underside ; short yellow hairs on 

 dorsum. Forewings, costa rounded, apex rounded, hindmargin 

 obliquely rounded, chrome yellow ; the base of the wing is- 

 densely covered with black scales, whence they are prolonged to 

 hindmargin, and also along costa, where they form a thin costal 

 line to f ; it then expands to pass obliquely to vein 4 at f , where 

 it is abruptly angled and bent to half distance to hindmargin,. 

 forming two semilunar waves between the veins ; here it again 

 bends at a sharp angle to ^ hindmai-gin and encloses with the 

 costa a glossy brown-black area ; there is a mmute black disco- 

 cellular spot, also a tine deep black hindmarginal line. Cilia 

 ochreous drab, yellow at anal angle. Hindwings coloured as 

 forewings, with scattered black scales at the base ; in ^ six black 

 hindmarginal dots on veins, difiused in f into a continuous- 

 band, interrupted only on folds. Cilia yellow. Undersurface^ 

 forewmgs, lemon-yellow, devoid «>f markings, excepting the disco- 

 cellular spot, and the darker shade corresponding to the dark 

 apical area of the upper surface ; hindwings freely dusted with 

 minute drab specks, and having four reddish ring dots in an 

 irregular rhomboid from base, an irregular row of suflused or 

 elongate dots from ^ costa to h inner margin and parallel to hind- 

 margin, three costal dots united by suffusion, a central elongated 

 mark diffused with a ring spot, two smaller spots nearer inner 

 margin, an irregular dentate waved interrupted band at | 

 "svith the two middle fourths broader, and a black hindmarginal 

 dot on each of the veins ; in the ^ all the markings are smaller- 

 and less distinctly outlined. 

 Duaringa, Queensland. 



This species comes near to T. vaiim, Misk., but differs from 

 that species in the absence of markings on under surface of fore- 

 wings. It differs materially in arrangement of black border of 

 forewings from T. smila.r, Don., and it differs from T. parnd/i, 

 Herr. Schaff., in the copious markings on undersurface of hind- 

 wings, which in T.}>arrt(In are nil. The habit of the butterfly 

 is quite different to the allied species. It appears to frequent 

 damp patches of marshy ground, but I failed to find it among: 

 reeds or reed-grasses. Mr. Barnard had it in his collection, 

 unnamed. 



