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costa and incurved at discal fold and lower extremity where it 

 expands, a series of small elongate spots beyond it .from costa to 

 vein 4 and a series just before termen with lunulate spot at tornus ; 

 cilia brown with series of small white spots. Hind wing orange ; 

 a small blackish discoidal spot and broad terminal band with 

 irregular inner edge, expanding towards costa and triangularly at 

 submedian fold ; cilia chequered orange and blackish. Underside 

 of fore wing with the base orange, the veins of terminal area of 

 both Avings streaked with white. 



Hah. New Guinea (Mathew), 2^,4$, Port Moresby, 2^,1 2 , 

 Sogeri, 2 <3 ; Queensland, Gayndah, 1 J type, Peak Downs, 1 2 , 

 Brisbane (Turner), 3 $, Dalby (Turner), 1 J; N. Australia, 

 Alexandria (Stalker), 2 <5 , 1 § ; W. Australia, Sherlock P. 

 (Clements), 2 rf, 2 $ . Exp. 24-42 millim. 



Genus MICRAPATETIS. 



Type. 



Micrapatetis, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 369 orthozona. 



Axiorata, Turner, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxvii, p. 120 (1902) ... leucozona. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd short ; frons with rounded 

 prominence ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male ciliated ; thorax clothed 

 almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with 

 large spreading crest ; tibire slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7. 8, 9, 10 

 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked ; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or stalked ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell to near middle. 



A. Fore wing with the ground-colour white. 



a. Fore wing not suffused and irrorated with bronze-brown. 

 a 1 . Fore wing with ante- and postmedial black-brown 



bands tripartita. 



b l . Fore wing with medial bronze-brown band. 



a 2 . Fore wing yellowish white, the medial and terminal 



bands connected in male orthozona. 



b". Fore wing pure white, the medial and terminal bands 



separate in male leucozona. 



b. Fore wing suffused and irrorated with bronze-brown albiviata. 



B. Fore wing ochreous suffused with purplish red. 



' a. Fore wing with the medial blackish band angled outwards 

 at middle. 

 a 1 . Fore wing with the medial band wide, the terminal 



area suffused and irrorated with fuscous glycychroa. 



b x . Fore wing with the medial band narrow, the terminal 



area very slightly irrorated with fuscous jntrpurascens. 



b. Fore wing with the medial blackish band slightly excurved 



at middle pi/rasti*. 



c. Fore wing dark red-brown with the basal area yellow ... fiavipars. 



4926. Micrapatetis tripartita. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 17.) 

 Acontia tripartita, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 400. 



2 . Head and thorax white, the frons and tegulae tinged with 

 yellow ; palpi black, yellow at tips ; sides of frons and antenna? 



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