438 On neio Australian Hesperiidas. 



jis also the femora on each side beneath ; legs reddish, the 

 femora beneath and the tibiae and tarsi above shading into 

 blackish ; abdomen clothed with yellowish-green hair at the 

 base above ; incisions and under surface whitish, tuft 

 yellowish. 



All the wings with the fringes chequered with whitish or 

 pale yellow. Anterior wings with a large yellow spot at the 

 end of the cell, widened in both directions above, two paler 

 spots above thesubmedian nervure, at one third and two thirds 

 of the length of the wing respectively ; at three fourths of the 

 length of the wing is a transverse subcostal spot crossed by 

 two nervures ; between this and the outer spot above the 

 submedian nervure is a larger one between the median 

 nervules, crossed by one nervure, and nearer the hind margin 

 are two confluent and more indistinct whiter spots opposite 

 the cell. Hind wings with the centre crossed by a slightly 

 curved and moderately broad deep yellow band. 



Underside : Anterior wings nearly as above, but with the 

 spots more distinctly crossed by the nervures, which are yel- 

 lowish towards the base and brown towards the margin. 

 'J'he two largest spots are more distinctly yellow than 

 the others. The two submarginal spots above correspond 

 to the lower end of a yellowish subcostal band crossed by 

 three nervures, and connected with a smaller spot placed 

 obliquely above it between the band and the subcostal 

 spot. The large spot at the end of the cell is also sur- 

 mounted by a small irregular spot. Posterior wings very pale 

 yellow, with a large oval black spot at the base, the inner 

 margin broadly black, five rather large black dots on the 

 upper half of the fringes, which are tawny towards the anal 

 angle : tliree rows of large black spots ; the first consists 

 of four large spots — the uppermost long, narrow, and pointed 

 outwards, the second much shorter, with its narrowest end 

 inwards, the third forming a long triangle, its inner angle 

 truncated and its centre filled up with pale yellow, the fourth 

 forming a large angular projection from the black hind 

 margin. The outer rows consist of about six spots, sepa- 

 rated by the nervures, and of various sizes and shapes ; 

 these are surmounted by a long subcostal spot, produced 

 nearly to the first of the black dots on the fringe. 



Closely allied to H. ornata and H. picta^ Leach. On the 

 under surface the anterior wings resemble those of the latter 

 species and the posterior wings the former. Easily distin- 

 guished from most of the allied Australian species, except 

 H. croiteSj Plew. (to which it has little resemblance otherwise 

 on either surface of the wings), by the presence of the pale 

 submarginal spots opposite the cell on the upper surface of the 

 anterior wings. 



