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costa and incurved ut 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 witli 

 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 wings streaked with white. 



Hah. New Guinea (Matheiv), 2 c? , 4 $ , Port Moresby, 2 c? , 1 ? , 

 Sogeri, 2 S ; Queensland, Gayndah, 1 S type. Peak Downs, 1 $ , 

 Brisbane {Turner), 3 $, Dalby (Turner), 1 c{ ; N. Austkalia, 

 Alexandria (Stalker-), 2 cJ , 1 § ; \V. Australia, Sherlock II. 

 (Clements), 2 (?, 2 $ . Exj). 24-42 millim. 



Genus MICRAPATETIS. 



Type. 



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



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



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

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

 ]irominence ; eyes large, round; antennas of male ciliated; thorax clothed 

 almost entirely with scales, the ])rothorax without crest, the nietathorax with 

 large spreading crest ; tibias sliglitly fringed wit h 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 sliortly stalked ; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; G, 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}. Fore wing with ante- and postmedial black-brown 



bands irijxuiila. 



b^. Fore wing with merliid bronze-bruwn band. 



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



bands connected in male oiiho~oiia. 



h-. Forewingpure white, the medial and terminal bands 



separate in niide Icnca-ona. 



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



Tj. Fore wing ochreous suffused with purplish red. 



a. Fore wing ^vith the medial blackish band angled outwards 



at middle. 

 a^. Fore wing with tiie medial baud wide, the terminal 



area suffused and irrorated with fuscous glycjicliroa. 



h^. Fore wing with the medial band narrow, the terminal 



area very slightly irrorated with fuscous ^wrjir^o-rt.srcws. 



b. Fore wing with the medial blackish band slightly exciirved 



a t m iddle pj/rasiia. 



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



4920. Micrapatetis tripartita. (Plate CXLYI. fig. 17.) 



Aconiia tripartita, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 188G, p. 400. 



2 . Head and thorax wliito, the frons and teguku tinged Avith 

 yellow ; palpi black, yellow at tips ; sides of frons and anteuujB 



2a2 



