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mity of cell, beneath which is a quadrate orange patch; two 

 roundish semi-transparent whitish spots between, veins 2 and 

 4 near termen, generally absent ; cilia as in f orewings. Under- 

 side of wings dull ochreous brighter in male ; markings of 

 upper side reproduce(J. 



The male is similar in appearance to denitza, but at once 

 distinguished by the absence of purplish neural streaks. The 

 female is quite a different looking insect, but is readily known 

 by the broad transparent fascia of forewings. 



The lai^'ae feed on Tristania, Eugenia, and the camphor 

 laurel. They draw two leaves together, one over the other 

 in canopy-like form, with silken threads, and remain, quiescent 

 during the day, only emerging at night. Specimens feeding 

 on the camphor laurel, which were protected by mosquito 

 netting bound round! the twigs, lived through ihe winter, 

 changing in September and emerging in October. A second 

 brood will change in February or March and be on the wing 

 a fortnight or three weeks later. It is most active at dusk 

 (Illidge). 



Cooktown, Mackay, and Brisbane, Queensland ; four speci- 

 mens in November and December. 



3. Phoenicops denitza, Hew. 



{Netrocoryne denitza. Hew. Desc. Hesp., p. 22, n. 2, 1867; 

 Ex. Butt. V. Hesp., f. 4, 1874 ; Staud, Ex. Sch., t. 100, 1888.) 



Male and female, 64-68 mm. Head, palpi, legs, and antennae 

 orange, club of antennae blackish. Eyes cannine. Thorax 

 and abdomen orange in male, purplish in female, female 

 beneath orange. Forewings elongate, triangular, costa nearly 

 straight, teiTnen bowed, oblique ; in male orange, in female 

 iridescent bluish purple, with costa broadly suffused with 

 orange in middle, apical and hind-marginal area dull orange ; 

 all veins in both sexes generally outlined with bluish purple ; 

 2 large rounded semi-hyaline whitish spots, edged with pur- 

 plish ; first at extremity of cell, immediately followed by a 

 small oblique streak of orange, more pronounced in female ; 

 second immediately below and beyond first, surmounted by an 

 ovate, and below by a rounded similar spot, upper only sepa- 

 rated by a vein ; 3 smaller similar spots midway between cell 

 and apex, placed obliquely outwards, median largest, lower 

 smallest, dot-like in male, and sometimes nearly obsolete ; cilia 

 orange, mixed with fuscous in female. Hindwings with 

 termen hardly prominent in middle ; color as in forewings ; 

 all veins outlined with bluish purple ; an ovoid orange spot 



