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dark fuscous patch at apex, continued along termen 

 to one-thirdi, becoming more or less confluent with basal patch 

 on costa ; 2 moderate quadrate dark fuscous spots immediately 

 preceding apical patch, lower largest and more distinct; cilia 

 white, an apical patch fuscous. Under side of forewings with 

 color and markings as on upper side, but cellular spots strongly- 

 confluent and surmounted by an elongate silvery-white mark ; 

 a more or less defined whitish sub-terminal ban,dl, broadest and 

 more pronounced on lower third. Hindwings beneath white ; 

 a dark fuscous streak, commencing indistinct and narrow at 

 base, suddenly becoming very broad and continued round to 

 termen at one-third, termination abrupt ; qua.dk'ate spots as on 

 upper side ; a small fuscous streak on termen above anal angle ; 

 cilia as above. 



Somewhat allied to Japetus, Cr. 



Brisbane to Cape York, Queensland; four specimens^ 

 November and December. 



5. Mesodina, Meyr. 



Club of antennae elongate, pointed, bent, sub-porrect, termi- 

 nal joint very short. Posterior without middle spurs. Fore- 

 wings in male without stigma; 5 parallel to 4 and 6, slightly 

 nearer 6 at base. Hindwings ; 5 obsolete. The two species 

 may be recognised as follows : 



1. Forewings with whitish markings ... 8 Halyzia. 



2. Forewings with yellowish markings ... 7 Aeluropis. 



7. Mesodina aeluropis, Meyr., M.S.S. 

 Male and female, 30-44 mm. Head, palpi, antennse, thorax, 

 legs and abdomen dark fuscous, thorax and palpi beneath 

 whitish, antennse annulated beneath with white, club reddish- 

 carmine, beneath white, abdomen and legs mixed beneath with 

 whitish, posterior legs more whitish. Forewings elongate- 

 triangular, termen gently bowed, oblique ; dark fuscous, with 

 yellowish markings; basal third more or less clothed with 

 short golden hairs ; a large quadrate spot in posterior end of 

 cell, posterior edge slightly sinuate in middle, anterior edge 

 nearly straight; a roundish spot beyond lower extremity of 

 first; a second, similar, twice as large immediately beyond, 

 below, and a third sometimes absent in male, small, placed 

 exactly below middle of second; an oblique transverse row 

 of three sub-apical spots, lower largest; sometimes absent 

 in male ; cilia dark fuscous, becoming mixed with whitish in 

 middle of termen and almost wholly whitish around anal angle. 



