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29. Telesto Doubledayi, Feld. 



(Verb. Zool. Bob. Ges., xii., p .491, n. 180, 1862; male,. 

 Hesperilla dirphia, H.S., nee. Hew., Stett. Ent. Zeit,, p. 79, 

 n. 61, Taf. iii., fig. 10, 1869 ; ? female, Tel. Leachii, Feld., Verb. 

 Zool., Bot. Ges., xii., p. 491, n. 181, 1862; A. and S., Vict. 

 Butt., p. 126, 1893.) 



Male and female, 28-30 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax,, 

 and abdomen dark fuscous, thorax, and abdomen clothed with 

 greenish-yellow hairs, beneath whitish, antennae spotted 

 beneath with yellowish, club reddish above, whitish beneath. 

 Forewings elongate, triangular, termen bowed, oblique; 

 ochrerous fuscous, with golden reflections; markings yel- 

 lowish ; an elongate spot in cell, extending from beyond 

 middle to posterior extremity, where it is curved tO' upper 

 edge of cell ; much shorter in female ; a quadrate spot above 

 and beyond extremity of stigma; a second, smaller, just 

 below, becoming very large in female; an oblique transverse 

 row of 3 whitish spots beyond two-thirds from base; stigma 

 dull fuscous, edged on either side narrowly with black, 

 erect, somewhat waved, from immediately above inner 

 margin at two-thirds to before lower iposi>cellular spot, cilia 

 fuscous, mixed with whitish. Hind wings with termen hardly 

 waved; color as in forewings; a large patch of dull yellow 

 hairs, extending from base along inner margin to two-thirds, 

 more dense in middle, but not forming definite markings; cilia 

 yellowish, at base fuscous. Under side of forewings purplish- 

 fuscous, markings of upper side reproduced; a moderately 

 broad bluish white marginal streak, extending from middle 

 of termen to apex; inner margin broadly fuscous-whitish 

 throughout, cilia as above. Hindwings beneath piu'plish-fus- 

 cous, irrorated throughout with bluish white, except a sub- 

 median band of 5 contiguous moderate fuscous spots ; cilia as 

 above. 



At once recognised by the rich coloring of under side of 

 hindwings and curious cellular spot of male. We think that 

 the insect figured in "Victorian Butterflies," p. 126, as 

 Hesperilla arsenia, Plotz., represents the female of this 

 species, as there are se\en spots, not six, on upper side of 

 Arsenia, male. There is an excellent figure of the male 

 (figured as Dirphia, Hew.) in Stett. Ent. Zeit., taf. iii., fig. 10. 



Gympie, Duaringa, Mackay, and Brisbane, Queensland ; 

 Como and Sydney, New South Wales; Healesville and Wan- 

 din, Victoria; from November to March. 



