PATETA. 69° 
moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal ridge of scales on 1st seg- 
ment and crest on anal segment, the paired anal tufts small. Fore wing with 
the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from 
near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 
form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 
5 fully developed from just above angle; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anasto- 
mosing with the cell near base only. 
A. Fore wing strongly glossed with blue-black .............4- carbo. 
B. Fore wing grey-brown with hardly a trace of blue-black 
GLOSS see eecsbaee sca wein ciclo dels Ma cle teehelesiona deed vansssiouinawonwose conspicienda. 
6278. Pateta carbo. (Plate CLXXV. fig. 26.) 
Phlegetonia carbo, Guen, Noct. ii. p. 302 (1852). 
Head, thorax, and abdomen black tinged with purplish grey, the 
palpi in front, frons, and dorsum of tegulie with some reddish brown ; 
pectus mostly white with some rufous in front; tarsi ringed with 
white; ventral surface of abdomen white, mixed with red-brown 
towards extremity. Fore wing glossy blue-black ; subbasal line in- 
distinct, double, waved, from costa to vein 1; a single antemedial 
line followed by a double line, slightly angled outwards just below 
the cell and inwards at vein 1; orbicular and reniform defined by 
black and with traces of pale annuli, the former minute, round, the 
latter narrow and somewhat constricted at middle ; a slight sinuous 
medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial 
line double, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold 
and incurved below vein 4, another double sinuous line beyond it 
incurved below vein 3; traces of a pale minutely waved subterminal 
line with black streaks beyond it between veins 6 and4; a terminal 
series of small black lunules. Hind wing pure white, the terminal 
area fuscous, its inner edge emitting slight streaks on the veins and 
angled inwards at vein 2 on which there are slight white striz 
towards termen ; a waved black terminal line and white line at base 
of cilia; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas suffused 
with brown and irrorated with white, a blackish discoidal spot and 
double postmedial series of minute streaks on the veins. 
Hab. Br. N. Guus, Port Moresby, 4 5; QurEenstanp, Kuranda 
(Simmonds), 1 ¢, Brisbane (Lurner), 1 3, 2 9, Taylor Range 
(Lyell), 1 2, Rockhampton, 1g; N. Avsrratia, Port Darwin 
(J.-J. Walker), 1 3,1 9, Institute Is. (J. J. Walker), 1 Q. 
Exp. 36-40 millim. 
6279. Pateta conspicienda. 
Pateta conspicienda, W\k. xv. 1748 (1858). 
Phiegetonia corvina, Snell. 'Vijd. v. Ent. xxiii. p. 68, pl. 6. f. 1 (1880). 
Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous black mixed with some grey ; 
palpi whitish in front; pectus white, tinged with rufous in front ; 
tarsi ringed with white; abdomen with the dorsal crest black, the 
