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30. Telesto leucostigma^ n. sp. 



Male and female, 26-30 mm. Head, palpi, antennse, thorax, 

 legs, and abdomen golden-fuscous, antennse faintly spotted with 

 whitish, (palpi beneath whitish, hairs of abdomen deep golden- 

 ochreous. Forewings elongate, triangular, termen gently 

 bowed, oblique; dark fuscous, finely sprinkled golden- 

 ochreous; basal hairs golden-ochreous ; markings semi-hyaline, 

 faintly ocbreous-tinged ; a sickle-shaped spot, in female some- 

 what quadrate, m posterior extremity of cell sometimes almost 

 obsolete in male ; a transverse series of three sub-apical spots, 

 sometimes absent in male; a quadrate spot at base of veins 

 3 and 4, and a smaller one immediately below ; stigma white, 

 moderately erect, faintly curved outwards at apex, entire, 

 edged on either with black; cilia ochreous-fuscous. Hind- 

 wings with termen rounded ; color as in forewings, but without 

 markings; basal and inner marginal hairs long, golden- 

 ochreous ; cilia ochreous. Female with color as in male, but 

 markings more yellowish and much enlarged ; indications of a 

 small spot on vein 1 beyond middle.. Under side of fore- 

 wings in both sexes fuscous, somewhat purplish tinged, becom- 

 ing dull ochreous along posterior half of dorsum ; markings of 

 Hipper side except stigma, reproduced. Hindwings more red- 

 dish-purplish, with 2 faintly indicated transverse rows of 

 fuscous spots. 



Allied to Douhledayi, but differs from any other Australian 

 species by the white stigma, which is a very distinctive charac- 

 ter ; the occasional absence of the sub-apical spots and of cellu- 

 lar spot are curious forms of variation. 



Kuranda and Brisbane, Queensland ; Mount Kembla, New 

 South Wales ; two specimens in October. 



31. Telesto ismene, Newm. 



{T. parvulus, Plotz., Stett. Ent. Zeit., p. 378, 1884; 

 Telesto ismene, Meyr., Ent. Mo. Mag., p. 82, 1885; A. and S., 

 Vict. But., p. 128, 1893 ; Hesi^eriUa humilis. Misk, male, P.B. 

 Soc, Queensland, p. 150, 1889.) 



Male, 24 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen dark 

 fuscous, thorax and abdomen mixed with golden-ochreous 

 hairs, ipalpi, thorax, and abdomen beneath whitish. Legs 

 ochreous-whitish. Antennae blackish, annulated with white, 

 club blackish, apex reddish beneath. Forewings elongate- 

 triangular, termen gently bowed ; ochreous-fuscous, with golden 

 reflections, basal third more or less clothed with short orange 

 hairs ; markings whitish ; a narrow, somewhat 8-shaped spot 



