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The larvae, which is ot the usual yellowish-green Hesperid 

 type, feed on Imjjeratu arundinacea. It is similar in habits 

 and appearance to Lascivia in both larval and pupal stages. 

 The pupa is somewhat similar, but rather lighter fuscous, the 

 posterior segments are covered with short bristles, above and 

 below, the head has the anterior portion very iiigose. 



The imago frequent the blossoms of lucern {Medicago sp). 



Hobart, Tasmania; Parkside, Highbury, and Mount Lofty 

 range, South Australia ; Sydney and Como, New South Wales ; 

 Melbourne, Gisborne, &c., Victoria; Western Australia 

 {Misl-in) ; se\eral specimens from November to March. 



54. Apaustus flavovittata, Latr. 



{HesperiUa flavovittata, Latr., Enc. Meth., ix., p. 768, n. 

 114, 1819; H. hifasciata, Misk. {nee Tepp.), Ann., Queensland 

 Mus., p. 81, 1891). 



Male, 20 mm. Differs only trom Papyria as follows : All 

 th© white markings of under side are changed to ochreous- 

 yellow, and the band of hindwings is much shorter. 



Perth, Western Australia ; two specimens in November. 



55. Apaustus lascivia, Rosen. 



{Pamphila lascivia, Rosen., Ann. N.H. (5), xvi., p. 378, t. 11, 

 fig. 1, 1885 ; Apaustus lascivia, A. and S., Vict. Butt., p. 113, 



1893.) 



Male and female, 17-25 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdo- 

 men dark fuscous, palpi beneath yellowish, thorax and abdo- 

 men densely clothed with long yellowish hairs. Antenuce fus- 

 cous, spotted beneath with yellowish, club blackish, basal two- 

 thirds yellowish. Legs whitish, tibiae and tarsi yellowish. 

 Forewings elongate, triangular, costa nearly straight, termen 

 obliquely rounded ; dark fuscous ; basal half of wing in male 

 more or less minutely irrorated with yellowish, in the female 

 the irroration extends along costa to apex ; markings orange ; 

 a moderately thick streak along costa from base to middle, 

 posteriorly cut by intervening veins ; an elongate streak along 

 lower margin of cell and continued right around posterior ex- 

 tremity, anteriorly attenuated ; an oblique transverse row of 

 5 or 6 (generally 5) more or less quadrate spots, in male sepa- 

 rated by veins, in female inclining to coalesce, from consider- 

 ably below apex to above two-thirds of inner margin; a suf- 

 fused spot below costa between extremity of costal streak and 

 apex of transverse row ; cilia fuscous-whitish. Hindwings with 

 termen rounded, faintly sinuate before anal angle ; color of 



