AM AT A. 28 



llab. Queensland, Townsville, type t in Coll. Turner, Mt. 

 Tambourine, 1 6 , 1 $ . Exp. J 31, § 12 inilliin. 



*9S a. Amata magistri. (Plate II. fig. 8.) 



Hi/ilni*! aperta, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 783 (1886), nee 



Wlk. 

 Hyntomig magistri, Turner, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxix. p. 846 (1905). 



6 . Head and thorax black-brown ; frons and tegulae orange- 

 yellow ; antennae white at tips ; pectus with yellow lateral patches ; 

 femora slightly streaked with yellow ; abdomen banded black-brown 

 and orange-yellow, the anal tuft orange-yellow. Fore wing black- 

 brown ; an orange-yellow antemedial patch in submedian inter- 

 space, a quadrate patch in cell towards its extremity, an oblique 

 wedge-shaped patch below vein 2 with slight spot above it, an 

 elongate spot above vein 6, minute spot above 7, and patches above 

 veins I, 3. Hind wing black- brown ; an orange-yellow spot in base 

 of cell conjoined to a large patch below the cell nearly confluent 

 with patches above and below vein 3. 



Rah. N. S. Wales, Bathurst, type t 6 in Coll. Meyrick. 

 Exp. IG millim. 



98 b. Amata orphncea. ( Plate II. fig. 9.) 



Hydrusa orphnwa, Turner, T. R. Soc. S. Austr. xxii. p. 98 (1898). 



cJ . Brown-black ; antenna? with the shaft more or less clothed 

 with ochreous scales above; frons, teguke, a ring round neck, 

 lateral patches on pectus, fore coxse, and stripes on femora and tibia; 

 orange ; abdomen hairy with orange patch on base of dorsum 

 followed by six bands, the anal segment with dorsal orange patch ; 

 wings with thin hairy scaling. Fore wing with somewhat quadrate 

 orange-yellow patches below base and in end of cell ; a wedge- 

 shaped patch below vein 2, spots above 3, 4, an elongate spot above 

 6 and small spot above 7. Hind wing with orange-yellow spot 

 in cell conjoined to a patch below it which again is conjoined to 

 spots above veins 2 and 3. 



$ . Abdomen with five bands beyond the basal patch, the anal 

 tuft orange and ochreous ; hind wing with the basal and post- 

 medial patches separate. 



Hab. Queensland, Warwick {Turner), 1 3 ; Centb. Aus- 

 tkalia, Hermannsburg I Sillier), 1 J . Exp. '40 millim. 



100^. Amata philippinensis. (Plate 11. fig. 10.) 



Syntomis philippinensis, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xix. \>. 222 (1907). 



J. Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown; frons and vertex 

 of head orange ; antenna' white at tips ; tegulae orange ; patagia 

 orange with black edges ; metathorax with orange patch ; pectus 



