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spot ; two small roundish, faintly fuscous edged whitish spots, 

 lying midway between large spot and termen, cilia of both 

 wings as above. 



Appears to be intermediate in form between Petalia, Hew., 

 and lacchus. Fab., differing from the former by the brighter 

 coloring and two additional spots on under side of hindwings, 

 and from the latter by more abbreviated band of upper side oi 

 hindwings, and lesser number and position of spots on under 

 side of hindwings. 



Type in coll., Macleay Museum. 



Endeavor River, Queensland ; one specimen. 



41. Trapezites petalia, Hew, 



{Hesptrilla petalia, Hew., Descr. Hesp., p. 32, n. 25, 1868; 

 Herr-Schaf, Stett. Ent. Zeit, t. 3, fig. 11, 1869; Tdesto mega- 

 Jopk, Meyr., Trans. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., p. 832, 1887.) 



Male and female, 28-32 mm. Head, paljpi, antennae, thorax, 

 and abdomen dark fuscous, antennae annulated with white be- 

 neath, palpi, thorax, and abdomen clothed with short ochreous 

 hairs. Legs whitish. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa 

 nearly straight, termen hardly rounded, oblique; golden- 

 ochreous; markings semi-hyaline, dull golden; an irrregularly 

 eight-shaped spot in posterior end of cell; in female much 

 enlarged and becoming somewhat quadrate ; a cartridge-shaped 

 post-cellular spot immediately beyond, indented posteriorly ; a 

 much larger, somewhat quadrate spot, immediately below, simi- 

 larly indented ; an irregular yellowish spot obliquely below ; 

 m female much larger, quadrate, and more whitish ; inner 

 margin from base to before two-thirdg narrowly yellowish ; an 

 oblique transverse series of 3 elongate quadrate sub-costal 

 spots, lower largest; cilia whitish-ochreous, basal half 

 fuscous. Hindwings with termen rounded ; color as in fore- 

 wings; dorsal half of wing clothed with long yellowish hairs, 

 excepting beneath yellowish ipatch ; a moderate median yel- 

 lowish patch, immediately beyond cell, anterior edge distinct, 

 posterior edge somewhat suffused ; cilia as in forewings. Under 

 side of forewings dull ochreous, dorsal half dark fuscous, cell 

 broadly blackish towards posterior extremity; markings of 

 upper side reproduced; cilia as above. Hindwings grey- 

 whitish ; a large distinct round black spot slightly above 

 middle of wing, suffusedly edged with dull yellowish ; a small 

 white (in female large) spot in centre of black spot ; cilia grey- 

 whitish. 



Considerable confusion has arisen in the past in reference 



