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in and below cell, a curved postmedial band, and some sub- 

 terminal spots. Hind wing orange-yellow entirely suifused with 

 crimson, or the inner area only suffused with crimson ; a large 

 black discoidal spot ; a subterminal series of spots varying in size, 

 often conjoined, and with spots beyond them on apical half of termen, 

 or with complete broad terminal band and black streak on inner 

 area. 



Ab. 1. 5 . Thorax with slight black streak on vertex and spot on 

 patagia ; fore wing with all the markings almost obsolete, except the 

 streak on basal part of costa and discoidal spot. 



Hah. Queensland, Brisbane {Turner)., 4: cj", 1 ?, Moreton Bay 

 {Darnel), 1 c? type lacteata ; N. S. Wales, Hunter R., 1 S type 

 fascimila, Sydney {Matliew, Baynor), 28 cJ , 4 $ , type notata ; 

 Victoria {Balewell), 2 cJ , types ne.va and ni-griceps ; Tasmania, 



4 (S , type vigens. Exp. 34-42 millim. 



1675. Ardices glatignyi. 



Chelonia glatiffni/ijJje Guill. Rev. Zool. 1841, p. 257; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 239. 

 Ckeloma jmnida, Doubl. Eyre's Centr. Austr. i. p. 438, pi. 5. f. 3 (1845) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 240. 

 Ardices ftdvohirta, Wlk. iii. 710 (1855). 



Spilosoma suhocellatum, Wlk. vii. 1G97 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 240. 

 Spilosoma conferta, Wlk. xxxi. 295 (1864). 

 Spilosoma queenslandi, Lucas, Pr. R. SoCi Queensl. xiii. p. 60 (1898). 



White ; palpi orange, black at tips ; lower part of frons and 

 antennae black ; shoulders with black stripe with orange spot above 

 it ; patagia and vertex of thorax with black stripes ; legs striped 

 with black, fore coxa? black edged with orange, femora orange above ; 

 abdomen orange above, with dorsal series of short bands and lateral 

 and sublateral series of spots, the anal tuft white at extremity. 

 Fore wing with black fasciae at base on costa, in and below cell, and 

 above inner margin, usually conjoined on median nervure to the 

 antemedial band, which is acutely angled on median nervure, where 

 it is conjoined to the discoidal spot and to the postmedial maculate 

 band, which is excurved from below costa to vein 3, then oblique, 

 this again is usually conjoined at middle to the curved subterminal 

 maculate band, which is joined by an oblique maculate band from 

 apex and usuall}' conjoined to some subterminal spots between veins 



5 and 3 and to a series of spots on termen and cilia. Hind wing 

 with discoidal spot ; some irregular marks often present beyond 

 lower angle of cell ; two postmedial points below costa ; a more or 

 less developed subterminal maculate band ; some spots on apical 

 half of termen. 



Ab. 1. pallida. The orange replaced by scarlet. 



Hah. N. Hebrides {U.M.8. Dart), 1 c? , 1 $ ; S. Australia, 

 Kangaroo I., type $ pallida ; W. Australia {Du Boulay), 2 2 > 

 type suhocellatum, Albany {J. J. Walker), 1 J ; Tasmania, Hobart 

 {J. J. Wall-er), 5 c? , 8 $ , types fulvohirta and conferta. Exp., 



6 50, 5 58 millim. 



