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gently arched, termen gently bowed, oblique ; ochreous-fuscous, 

 golden tinged; basal two-thirds of wing clothed with short, 

 dense, greenish-yellow hairs ; markings pale yellow, opaque ; 

 an irregularly shaped spot in posterior end of cell ; a second 

 considerably beyond, hardly below ; a much larger somewhat 

 roundish ^pot obliquely before and below second ; a fourth 

 somewhat suffused, considerably before and below third ; an 

 oblique transverse series of 3 somewhat ovate sub-costal spots 

 at two-thirds from base, mediaai largest; cilia dark fuscous, 

 becoming whitish at tips and around anal angle. Hindwings 

 with termen rounded, color as in forewings ; a large patch of 

 long yellowish-green hairs from base along inner margin, oc- 

 cupying two-thirds of wing, on posterior extremity between 

 inner margin and vein 4, the hairs appear to form 3 elongate 

 streaks, separated by intervening veins; an elongate-quadrate 

 patch of pale yellow at two-thirds from base, parallel to upper 

 elongate streak of hair ; cilia pale yellowish-white. Under 

 side of both wings yellow ; markings of uipper side of forewings 

 reproduced in pale yellowish-white, excepting sub-costal spots, 

 which are hardly traceable ; dorsal two-thirds of wing dark 

 fuscous, excepting median third of termen ; cilia whitish. 

 Hindwings with a moderately large silvery-white roundish spot 

 at end of cell, edged with black; cilia as in forewings. 



Not unlike Petalia, Hew., but the preponderance of yellow 

 above and below affords a ready test for recognition. 



Stonyfell and Port Lincoln, South Australia ; two specimen* 

 in November; also from Duaringa, Queensland; and Hobart, 

 Tasmania. 



46. Trapezites argenteo-ornata. Hew. 



[C'ljcJopides argeuteo-ornatus. Hew., Desc. Hesp., p. 41, n. 4, 

 1868 ; Ex. Butt., v., Cyc. and Hesp., fig. 18, 19, 1874; Astictop- 

 terux a7(/enteo-nrnatu.s, Misk., Ann. Queensland Mus., p. 79, 

 1891.) 



Male and female, 30-36 mm. Head, antennae, thorax, and 

 abdomen dark golden-fuscous, post^orbital rims white, antenuce 

 Sjpotted with white beneath, club blackish, apex crimson, thorax 

 and abdomen clothed with yellowish hairs. Palpi yellowish- 

 white. Legs ochreous-white. Forewings elongate, triangu- 

 lar, costa slightly arched at base, thence straight, termen 

 oblique, faintly rounded ; dark fuscous ; basal hairs dense, 

 appressed, orange-ferruginous ; markings yellowish-orange ; a 

 moderate, in male small, irregular quadrat© spot in posterior 

 end of cell ; a second, quadrate, midway between first spot and 

 teraien ; a third, similar, below and considerably before second ; 



