95 



Plotz., Stett. Ent. Zeit., xlv., p. 378 (? 1884); Trapezites 

 phillyra, Misk., Proc. Roy. Soc, Queensland, p. 153, 1889 ; 

 female, A. and S., Vict. Butt., p. 119, 1893.) 



Male and female, 34-40 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and 

 abdomen dark fuscous, densely clothed with long greenish- 

 yellow hairs, beneath whitish. Legs fuscous-whitish, all 

 coxse white. Antennae fuscous, annulated with white above 

 and below, club beneath whitish, apical half reddish. Fore- 

 wings elongate-triangular, costa slightly arched at base, faintly 

 sinuate in middle, termen hardly bowed, oblique ; dark 

 fuscous-golden ; markings orange ; basal half of wing more or 

 less clothed with short dense orange-yellow hairs ; an irre- 

 gularly quadrate spot in posterior end of cell, deeply indented 

 anteriorly and posteriorly, ground color on either side becom- 

 ing black ; a large, in male small, elongate quadrate spot, below 

 first-mentioned spot, surmounted at its posterior apical 

 extremity by a moderate quadrate spot; a very small spot 

 below second spot, near anterior extremity; an irregularly 

 shaped yellowish, somewhat opaque spot, above inner margin 

 in middle, in female almost touching lower edge of second spot ; 

 an oblique transverse series of 3 roundish, white, subcostal 

 spots, at two-thirds from base, median smallest ; inner margin 

 narrowly edged from base to beyond middle with short orange 

 hairs ; cilia dull whitish, chequered with fuscous, basal half 

 wholly fuscous. Hindwings with color as in forewings, termen 

 faintly waved, apex and anal angle somewhat prominent, more 

 especially in male, base and inner margin broadly clothed with 

 long orange hairs ; median band, between veins 2 and 6, twice 

 dentate below and once above, posterior half much dilated; 

 cilia as in forewings. Underside of both wings fleshy- whitish, 

 somewhat lilacine tinged ; three subcostal spots reproduced as 

 above, accompanied below and beyond by two small fuscous 

 dots ; cell of forewings orange, becoming confluent with 

 quadrate spot of upperside, in female containing a suffused 

 blackish quadrate spot in middle, in male much smaller and 

 somewhat pointed ; an irregularly shaped patch of blackish 

 beyond end of cell ; other spots of upperside reproduced, some- 

 what confluent and edged posteriorly by 3 elongate-quadrate 

 spots, separated by intervening veins ; a somewhat cuneiform 

 blackish spot just below blackish spot in middle of cell ; cilia 

 dull v/hftish, chequered obscurely with fuscous. Hindwings 

 marked with a series of small, roundish fuscous rings filled 

 with ground color ; first roundish, between veins 7 and 8, at 

 one-third from base ; second iiTegular in cell, diamond shaped 



