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pale yellaw on posterior half more or less edged above by its 

 own width of pale yellow ; spot between veins 2 and 3 much 

 enlarged, and pale yellow. Hindwings reddish ; markings sil- 

 very-white, edged with fuscous ; a round spot in posterior ex- 

 tremity of cell ; a similar spot at two-thirds from base, between 

 veins 6 and 7, and two similar between veins 2 and 4 ; dorsal 

 aj-ea pale yellowish; cilia as above. 



Allied to Dirphia, Hew., but separable by the differenb 

 coloring of hindwings above and below, in other respects 

 similar. 



Northampton and Albany, Western Australia ; two speci- 

 mens in November. 



? 16. Telesto Dirphia, Hew. 



{HesperiUa dirphia, Hew. Desc. Hesp., p. 38, n. 2, 1868 ; 

 male, H. trimaculata, Tepp. Ti*ans. Roy. Soc, S.A., iv., p. 32, 

 t. 2, fig. 4, 1881 ; female. H. quadriuiaculata, ih. Lr., fig. 2.) 



Male and female, 35-47 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, antennae, 

 and abdomen dark golden-fuscous, palpi yellowish beneath, 

 thorax clothed with long yellowish hairs, antennae annulated 

 with whitish, club reddish-fuscous, internally whitish. Legs 

 fuscous. Forewings elongate, triangular, costa nearly 

 straight, faintly sinuate in middle, termen hardly round, 

 oblique ; dark golden-fuscous, with whitish-ochreousi markings ; 

 a large, somewhat quadrate spot in posterior end of cell, edges 

 sinuate ; a quadrate spot beyond end of cell, near base of veins 

 3 and 4 ; in female a similar spot immediately below ; a mode- 

 Tate quadrate spot lying on vein 1 and three-fourths from base, 

 absent in male ; an oblique transverse row of 3 quadrate sub- 

 costal spots at two-thirds from base ; stigma black, narrow, 

 erect, somewhat broken into 5 spots, from above inner margin 

 beyond middle to beyond posterior extremity of cell ; cilia 

 dark fuscous. Hindwings with termen rounded, color as in 

 fore^vings ; basil half of wing clothed with long dull yellowish 

 liairs ; a round yellow spot in cell near posterior extremity ; 

 -cilia ochreous-fuscous. Underside of forewings ochreous-fus- 

 cous, median third of wing- dark fuscous, markinc^s 

 of upper side reproduced, except stigma and upper 

 and lower of sub-costal spots; in the male are 2 

 extra spots placed as in male ; cilia as above. Under side of 

 Tiindwings reddish-ochreous ; markings snow-white, edged 

 with blackish : a large roundish spot in end of cell ; a second 

 in disc at two-thirds and 2 others, much smaller, contiguous to, 

 and below second ; cilia ochreous-fuscous, around inner margin 

 fleshy. 



