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Female, about 25 mm. Fore wings dark fuscous, with yellow 

 hairs towards base ; an oblique yellow band before middle, not 

 reaching cost a or dorsum, posterior edge with double promin- 

 ence above middle ; a^ transverse-oblong yellow spot beneath 

 costa at two-thirds, another beyond this between veins 4 and 

 6, and an irregular band at two-thirds from vein 4 to near 

 dorsum ; cilia pale yellowish, spotted with dark fuscous. Hind- 

 wings dark fuscous, with a large irregular well-defined yellow 

 patch in disc ; cilia as in forewings. Under side of forewing-s 

 as above, but with ochreous- whitish apical patch. Hindwings 

 fuscous, almost wholly suffused with ochreous-whitish ; discal 

 patch and a dorsal streak dilated to tomus, cream color. 



The specimen being a female, the genus is doubtful. Des- 

 cribed from the type which is probably unique, in British 

 Museum. 



Western Australia. 



44. Trapezites maheta, Hew. 



(Male. Tleapcria maheta. Hew., Ann. N. H. (4), xix., p. 80, 

 1877 ; Trapezites iacchus, Misk. {ner. Hew.), Ann. Queensland 

 Mus., 78, 1891.) 



Male and female, 30-38 mm. Head, ipalpi, thorax, and abdo- 

 men dark fuscous, thorax and abdomen mixed with ochreous 

 hairs, whitish beneath, antennae dark fuscous, annulated with 

 white beneath, club ochreous-whitish, apical half reddish be- 

 neath. Legs reddish fuscous. Forewings elongate-triangular, 

 costa gently arched, termen gently bowed, oblique, faintly 

 sinuate above anal angle ; dark fuscous, with golden reflec- 

 tions ; basal hairs yellowish, a yellowish sub-costal streak, suf- 

 fused, from base to before middle ; markings golden, somewhat 

 hyaline ; an irregular quadrate spot in posterior of cell, ante- 

 rior edge constricted above middle, causing lower half to pro- 

 ject somewhat, posterior edge faintly sinuate; a small some- 

 what quadrate spot considerably beyond, lying between veins 

 3 and 4 near base; a large cartridge-shaped spot lying just 

 below, anterior edge from beyond middle of cellular spot, pos- 

 terior edge to below middle of quadrate spot ; an oblique trans- 

 verse row of 3 somewhat roundish sub-costal spots at two-thirds 

 from base ; a somewhat moderate pentagonal spot of whitish* 

 ochreous, below anterior edge of cartridge-shaiped spot ; inner 

 margin narrowly yellow from base to beyond middle ; cilia dark 

 fuscous. Hindwings with termen rounded, somewhat promi- 

 nent at anal angle ; dark fuscous, somewhat purplish tinged ; 

 basal and inner marginal hairs long, yellowish-green ; a mode- 



