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spot, first moderate, quadrate, somewhat projecting anteriorly; 

 •second smaller, about half size of first; third elongate and 

 .reaching termen«, rounded anteriorly; cilia as above. Hind- 

 wings fleshy-ochreous, markings white, edged with fuscous ; a 

 round spot at end of cell ; a curved series of 7 ^pots ; first elon- 

 gate, below costa at just before two-thirds ; second, largest, 

 immediately below and beyond ; third and fourth small ; fifth 

 and sixth modei^ate ; seventh small, last 5 parallel to termen ; 

 inner marginal area broadly pale yellowish ; cilia as above. 



Allied to D^nnysa, Hew., but separated by the fewer number 

 of spots of upper side, and especially by the totally different 

 .color and markings of under side of hindwings, which in that 

 ■species is lilacine and the spots are very small and differently 

 placed. 



Port Lincoln, South Australia; Melbourne, Victoria; two 

 -specimens in November, 



21. Telesto donnysa. Hew. 



{HixiicrUJa don.nt/sd. Hew. Male. Desc. Hesp., p. 39, n. 3, 

 1868; Butt. v. Hesip. and Cyclop, fig. 7, 1874 ; A. and S., Vict. 

 Butt., p. 102, 1893.) 



Male and female, 33-40 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, 

 .and abdomen dark golden-fuscous, palpi and thorax whitish 

 beneath, thorax and abdomen clothed with yellowish hairs 

 above, antennae spotted with white beneath. Legs reddish-fus- 

 .cous. Forewings elongate, triangular, costa almost straight, 

 termen hardly rounded, oblique ; dark golden-fuscous mark- 

 ings yellowish ; a moderately large elongate-quadrate spot in 

 posterior end of cell, anterior and posterior edges sinuate ; a 

 second, somewhat rounded, between veins 3 and 4 near base; 

 a third, larger, just below second ; a somewhat ovate spot above 

 inner margin at two-thirds from base, absent in male, or 

 -faintly traceable ; an oblique transverse series of 3 sub-costal 

 spots at three-fourths from base; stigma, black, narrow, 

 oblique, somewhat broken into spots from immediately above 

 inner marsfin to base of vein 4 ; cilia sfolden-fuscous. Hind- 

 wings with termen rounded ; color as in forewings ; basal and 

 inner marginal hairs long, orange ; a moderate dull orange 

 band in middle of wing, divided into 3 spots by intervening 

 veins, upper spot quadrate, well developed, lower two obscure ; 

 •cilia} ochreous, with fuscous spots at extremities of veins. Under 

 side of forewings dull fuscous, median third dark fuscous ; inner 

 margin light ochreous ; markings of upper side, except stigma, 

 ii^piwdueed ; a suffused 3^eTlowish spot resting on vein 1 at two- 



