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Hinchvings with termen rounded; color as in f orewings ; basal 

 and inner marginal hairs orange ; an elongate median patch 

 of yellowish scales, reaching from base to beyond two-thirds of 

 wing, brightest on upper edge ; cilia orange jellow. 



Underside of wings purplish-fuscous, markings of fore wings 

 reproduced, excepting stigma; basal tw^o-thirds of cell filled 

 with orange ; markings more or less edged with dark fuscous ; 

 cilia as above. Hindwings with two obscure parallel series 

 of transverse fuscous dots in middle, not reaching either mar- 

 gin; cilia dull ochreous, with a few blackish spots at base. 



Female, 30-32 mm. Color as in male, but markings of fore- 

 wings golden-yellow, post cellular pair larger, spot in cell less 

 elongate, patch of yellow on hindwings more pronounced. 



This Sjpecies could at first sight be easily confused with 

 Chaostola, Meyr., but the absence of the two extra spots 

 beyond the post-cellular pair is a definite and reliable distinc- 

 tion, besides which Chaostola has only one post-cellular spot 

 in the male, but three large ones in the female. 



Dandenong Ranges and Poowong, Victoria; in December 

 and January. 



24. Telesto dispar, Kirby. 



(Ann. Mag., N.H., vi., p. 436, 1893; Trapezites dispar, A. 

 and S., Vict. Butt., p. 117, 1893.) 



Male, 40 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen golden-ochreous, 

 more or less clothedi with greenish-ochreous hairs ; thorax and 

 abdomen beneath clothed with whitish hairs. Palpi blackish. 

 Antennae black, annulated with white beneath, club reddish- 

 carmine beneath. Legs reddish-fuscous. Forewings elon- 

 gate-triangular, costa nearly straight, termen gently bowed, 

 oblique ; ochreous-fuscous, with somewhat golden reflections ; 

 markings golden-metallic ; a large elongate-ovate spot in pos- 

 terior end of cell, somewhat indented in middle above ; a 

 moderate, somewhat quadrate spot beyond lower extremity of 

 first spot, sometimes surmounted by 2 or 3 small additional 

 spots, but these are generally absent; stigma narrow, black, 

 more or less broken into 5 or 6 elongate spots, from inner mar- 

 gin at two-thirds, terminating between quadrate and ovate 

 sipots; cilia dark fuscous. Hindwings with termen rounded, 

 color as in forewings; base and inner margin clothed with 

 greenish-ochreous hairs ; an elongate patch of dull orange in 

 middle of wing, not near reaching termen; cilia reddish- 

 ochreous, mixed with fuscous at base. Under side of forewings 

 reddish-ochreous, upper margin of cell narrowly orange 

 throughout, large cellular spot of upper side reproduced, and 



