BY E. MEYRICK, B.A. 653 



1. Stigm. zapyrana, n. sp. 



$ $ . 5"-5|". Head, antennse, and thorax dark fuscous, face 

 more or less whitish. Palpi ochreous-whitish. Abdomen 

 blackish, beneath with white rings. Legs ochreous-white, 

 anterior tibiae with two dark fuscous rings, all tarsi banded with 

 dark fuscous. Forewings short, broad, costa hardly arched, 

 hindmargin slightly oblique, rounded beneath ; dark fuscous, 

 with a slight ochreous reflection ; costa with numerous whitish 

 strigulse, more oblique towards base ; a moderately narrow 

 ochreous-white transverse parallel-sided blotch on middle of 

 inner margin, reaching half across wing, rather curved outwards 

 towards its extremity, containing three slender blackish lines 

 parallel to its anterior edge, the first and third often broken or 

 obsolete ; three blue metallic transverse lines ; first from before 

 middle of costa, very short, oblique ; second from beyond middle 

 of costa to anal angle, angulated outwards in middle, below 

 angulation leaden-metallic ; 'third from costa at three-fourths to 

 hindmargin beneath apex ; lower half of second metallic line 

 bordered posteriorly with ochreous-whitish, between which and 

 hindmargin is a row of four or five short black linear marks, 

 separated by whitish scales : cilia metallic silvery-grey, becoming 

 bright blue in certain lights. Hindwings bright deep orange, 

 with a rather narrow blackish border along hindmargin, some- 

 what variable in breadth, rather attenuated at anal angle ; cilia 

 ochreous-white, more ochreous towards anal angle, with a blackish 

 line near base. 



A very handsome species, conspicuously distinct by the bright 

 orange hindwings of both sexes. 



Rather common, flying briskly in the hot sunshine round the 

 purple blossoms of Hardenlergia monophylla (Leguminosaj; occurs 

 at Sydney, Parramatta, and Bulli, New South Wales; near 

 Melbourne ; and at Brisbane, Helidon, and Toowoomba, 

 Queensland ; in September, October, and December. 



