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and sixth from base grey, others black, terminal joint longer 

 than second, with eight rings, second, fifth, eighth, and some- 

 times third and sixth black, others grey. Antennae grey, 

 iinged with darker. Thorax dark grey sprinkled with whit- 

 ish. Abdomen grey. Forewings narrower than in catas- 

 poda; grey or rather dark fuscous irrorated with white, with 

 a few scattered black scales ; four more or less indistinct 

 oblique fasciae of dark fuscous suffusion, appearing on costa as 

 distinct dark fuscous spots, in disc marked with tufts of raised 

 scales mixed with blackish ; a blackish dash in disc towards 

 apex, and a blackish dot at apex : cilia grey, round apex 

 darker and irrorated with whitish. Hindwings and cilia 

 grey. 



Sydney, New South Wales, in August and February ; 

 three specimens. Very like S. catasiioda, but obviously nar- 

 rower-winged, and entirely without any ochreous markings or 

 colouring in the forewings. 



Heliodines, Stt. 



Antennae i, in male thick, simple. Labial palpi rather 

 short, slightly curved, porrected or drooping, filiform, point- 

 ed. Posterior tibiae smoooth-scaled. Forewings with lb 

 simple, 6 and 7 sometimes stalked, 7 to costa, 8 absent. 

 Hindwings J, lanceolate, cilia 3 ; transverse vein partly ab- 

 sent, 4 absent, 6 and 7 approximated. 



Based on one European species, with which the following 

 is truly congeneric, differing structurally only in the shorter 

 palpi, and in having veins 6 and 7 of the forewings separate, 

 whilst in the typical species they are stalked ; there is also 

 much superficial resemblance. 



Heliodines princeps, n. sp. 



Male, 11 mm. Head and thorax dark bronzy-fuscous. 

 Palpi short, drooping, purplish-fuscous, terminal joint longer 

 than second, whitish-ochreous. Antennae dark purplish-fus- 

 cous. Abdomen dark fuscous, beneath yellow - ochre- 

 ous. Forewings elongate - lanceolate ; 6 and 7 sepa- 

 rate : bright deep orange ; base suffused with 

 dark bronzy-fuscous ; a bar from costa at J, small transverse 

 costal spots before middle and at §, similar dorsal spots before 

 middle and before tornus, a dot beneath middle of disc, and 

 a small round discal spot beyond middle dark purplish-leaden- 

 metallic ; apical fourth dark purplish-fuscous, including a 

 purplish-leaden metallic streak from above tornus along ter- 

 men to apex, and a short oblique mark on costa : cilia dark 

 fug<?ous. Hindwings dark purplish-fuscous ; cilia dark fus- 

 r:ous, on lower half of termen orange. 



Brisbane, Queensland ; one specimen. 



