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pair and more or less confluent with those on termen ; a large 

 cuneiform spot at base, below cell ; inner margin broadly fus- 

 cous ; cilia as in forewings, somewhat reddish' tinged at base of 

 black bars. 



Closely allied to the preceding, but immediately distin- 

 guished from that species by the narrower and different shape 

 of orange band of hind.wings and smaller markings. The male 

 is subject to slight variation in the development of the post- 

 stigmal dot, which in some specimens is very suffused. 



Larva full fed, 30 mm. Moderate, cylindrical, somewhat 

 wrinkled, with hardly perceptible short whitish hairs, those 

 on posterior segments being longer. Head pale ochreous-fus- 

 cous, with a fine reddish median stripe, becoming V-shaped on 

 forehead, and a fuscous-reddish spot on either side of mouth. 

 Body yellowish-fuscous, markings fuscous, faintly indicated ; 

 dorsal well developed, sub-dorsal and lateral similar, but more 

 conspicuous on segments 9-13 ; spiracular and sub-spiracular 

 hardly traceable ; supra-spiracular ochreous whitish ; full fed 

 in October ; imago emerges during October and November. 

 Feeds on Cladium asperum. The pupae are fuscous, and are 

 furnished with two long hornlike projections on anterior seg- 

 ment. The pupal stage is of very short duration. 



Sydney, Newcastle, and Bathurst, New South Wales; Jind- 

 wick, Leongatha, and Wandin, Victoria; Cooktown and 

 Mackay, Queensland ; October to January, five specimens. 



11. Telesto MASTERS!, Waterh. 



{Hesperilla Mmtersi, Waterhouse. Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., 

 p. 54, 1900, pi. 1, figs. 5-8.) 



Male and female, 40-46 mm. Head fuscous. Palpi yel- 

 lowish-white. Antennae and legs fuscous, antennae annulated 

 beneath with whitish, club reddish beneath. Thorax and 

 abdomen above blackish, with yellowish segmental rings. Fore- 

 wings elongate, triangular, costa almost straight, termen 

 oblique ; dark goldJen fuscous ; basal hairs orange yellow ; 

 markings ochreous-yellow, hyaline ; a large quadrate spot in 

 posterior end of cell, in female indented anteriorly and pos- 

 teriorly ; a second, moderate, beyond extremity of cell : in 

 female there are 2 similar spots immediately below the second, 

 the upper large, quadrate, the lower somewhat elongate; 

 an oblique transverse series of 3 small sub-costal spots at 

 two-thirds from base ; a small spot in female at one-third from 

 base ; stigma black, moderate, entire from beyond middle of 

 inner margin to beyond lower termination of cell ; cilia fus- 



