20 amattp.t:. 



slight streak above 6. Hind wing with largo orange basal patch 

 conjoined to confluent spots above veins 2, 3. 



$ . Abdomen with six bands and the anal tuft orange. 



Hab. N. Australia. S. Hevwood I., 1 S type attenuate/; 

 Bathurst I., 6 J, I <f , Queen's L, 1 $ (J. J, Walker). Exp. 

 26 millim, 



*96 d. Amata recedens, Lucas, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) vi. 

 p. 281 (1891), is a distinct species differing from the above in the 

 abdomen being hairy and the spots of hind wing separate. 



96 e. Amata amoenaria. (Plate I. fig. 82.) 

 Syntomis amcenaria, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) ix. p. 418 (1902). 



6 • Black ; frons, tegulae, and patches on patagia and meta- 

 thorax orange ; abdomen with seven orange bands, the anal tuft 

 orange, black at sides. Fore wing with small round antemedial 

 spot below the cell ; an oblong spot in end of cell ; an oblique spot 

 below vein 2 ; elongate spots above veins 3 and 6, the former with 

 small spot below its extremity, the latter with slight streak above 

 it. Hind wing with orange patch on basal area except costa, ex- 

 tending on inner margin to tornus and with some fuscous scales on 

 it near origin of vein 2 ; a patch beyond the cell between veins 

 2 and 7. 



Sab. W. Australia, Eoebourne, 1 J type. Exp. 30 millim. 



96/. Amata trigonophora. (Plate IT. fig. 1.) 



Hydi-usa trigonophora, Turner, T. R. Soc. S. Austr. xxii. p. 97, pi. v. f. 7 



(1898). 



S ■ Black ; head orange yellow, the palpi, antenna?, and a bar 

 between their bases black ; metathorax and pectus at sides with 

 orange spots ; abdomen with dorsal orange-yellow patch at base 

 followed by six bands and a dorsal patch on terminal segment. 

 Fore wing with quadrate semihyaline orange-yellow patch below 

 base of cell ; a wedge-shaped patch in end of cell ; an oblique 

 wedge-shaped patch below base of vein 2, and elongate spots above 

 veins 3, 4, and 6 and usually a small spot above 7. Hind wing 

 with basal orange-yellow patch in and below cell just touching a 

 wedge-shaped patch above veins 2, 3. 



9 • Abdomen with five orange-yellow bands beyond the basal 

 patch, the anal tuft orange ; hind wing with the patches separate. 



Hab. Queensland, Brisbane (Ti/ruer), 2 J, 2 £. Exp. 

 32-40 millim. 



96 y. Amata melitospila. (Plate II. fig. 2.) 



Syntomis melitospila, Turner, P. Linn. Soc. N. S.W. xxix. p. 853 (1905). 



c? . Black with a greenish gloss ; head and tegulpe pale orange- 

 yellow, the palpi, antennae, and a band between their bases black ; 



