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with whitish, club reddish. Legs dark fuscous, yellowish 

 tinged. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa faintly sinuate 

 in middle, termen hardly rounded, oblique ; dark golden-fus- 

 cous ; markings silvery white ; an irregular quadrate spot in 

 posterior end of cell, strongly indented anteriorly and pos- 

 teriorly, lower edge somewhat elongate ; a dull ovoid spot 

 immediately below ; stigma narrow, entire, oblique, somewhat 

 whitish, edged posteriorly by a narrow black line, from two- 

 thirds of inner margin to bas© of veins 4 and 5 ; a somewhat 

 cartridge-shaped s.pot touching its apex ; a small spot imme- 

 diately below preceding spot; an oblique transveise row of 3 

 cartridge-shaiped sub-costal spots at two-thirds from base, 

 median smallest; cilia dark fuscous- whitish. Hindwings with 

 termen rounded ; color and cilia as in forewings ; a moderate 

 ovate whitish spot at two-thirds from base, between veins 6 and 

 7 ; a similar spot at two-thirds from base, between veins 3 and 

 4. Under side of forewings dark fuscous, markings of upper 

 side, excepting stigma reproduced; cell with some orange 

 scales; 3 irregular suffused ochreous patches between inner 

 margin and cell, hardly forming definite markings. Hindwings 

 with color as in forewings; inner margin broadly irrorated 

 with yellowish scales ; markings whitish more or less edged 

 with fuscous ; a very obscure spot at base of veins 7 and 8 ; a 

 second in end of cell, moderate, roundish ; a third between veins 

 7 and 8 at two-thirds from base ; a fourth, ovate, largest, imme- 

 diately below ; and two others, similar and parallel, between 

 veins 2 and 4 ; an obscure row of small parallel whitish dots 

 before termen. 



Female, 31 mm., with color and markings as in male, but 

 forewings with an additional sub-costal spot, large quadrate 

 spot resting on vein 1 in middle, and the other spots much 

 enlarged, especially that between veins 2 and 3. Hindwings : 

 a large spot at posterior extremity of cell and a curved row of 

 six hyaline spots before and parallel to termen, apical one the 

 largest. Under side as in male. 



Nearest Croreus, Misk., but very distinct and easily recog- 

 nised by the number and niTangement of spots on upper side of 

 hindwings. 



Cooktown and Cairns. Queensland ; two specimens in 

 November. 



The type Cfemale) is in the Brisbane Museum. 



36. Telesto croceus, Misk. 



("Male. Hfxperilla croceus. Misk., Proc. Roy. Soc. Q'd. p. 

 150, 1889 ; female. I.e. nee... Croceus.) 



