80 



Male and female, 30-36 mm. Head, palpi, antemise, thorax, 

 legs, and abdomen dark oclireous-fuscoiis, palpi beneath 

 whitish-ochreous, thorax clothed with yellowish h?irs, abdomen 

 ringed obscurely with whitish-ochreous. Fore wings elongate, 

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

 lique ; dark ochreous-fuscous, basal half of wing, especially in 

 male, clothed with dense golden-ochreous hairs ; markings .pale 

 ochreous; a transverse spot in posterior end of cell, in male 

 elongate and continued along lower mai'gin of cell to neai' 

 middle, appearing somewhat sickle-shaped ; an oblique trans- 

 verse series of 3 sub-costal spots at three-fourths from base, 

 median smallest; a small quadrate spot between veins 

 •3 and 4 near base ; another immediately below, between veins 

 -2 and 3 ; in male elongate, narrow, in female large and cart- 

 ridge-shaped ; stigma black, erect, narrow, somewhat broken 

 into spots, from immediately above inner margin at two-thirds 

 to base of veins 3 and 4 ; cilia fuscous, becoming ochreous 

 around anal angle. Hindwings with termen rounded, faintly 

 sinuate before anal angle, color and basal hairs as in forewings, 

 but yellow hairs mixed with scales and extending to beyond 

 three-fourths of wing ; 2 round whitish ochreous spots, sepa- 

 rated by intervening vein, in middle of wing at two-thirds from 

 base; cilia ochreous, fuscous at base. Under side of both wings 

 iuscous, densely irrorated with orange-yellow scales, so as to 

 :appear orange-eyellow ; markings of upperside, except stigma, 

 reproduced ; inner margin broadly whitish-ochreous through- 

 out, more pronounced in female ; markings of hindwings repro- 

 duced ; cilia brighter than above. 



Nearest Xantlwmera, but differs by presence of spots on 

 hindwings. Mr. Miskin, in describing the species, stated that 

 the female had no spots on hindwings, but the insect which 

 he mistook for the female of this species is the following 

 species. The female Croceus has spots on hindwings similar 

 to male, though sometimes obscured, and at first sight bears 

 a close resemblance on upiper side to Trapezites tasnianicus, 

 Misk. 



Brisbane, Cooktown, Cairns, and Townsville, Queensland ; 

 in October and November. 



37. Telesto xanthomera, n. sp. 



Male 30, female 36 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, legs 

 and abdomen dark fuscous, palpi whitish beneath, abdomen 

 ringed with whitish, thorax clothed -vvith yellowish hairs. Fore- 

 wings elongate, triangular, costa faintly arched near base. 



