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wing and markings as in fore wings ; basal and inner marginal 

 hairs long, yellowish ; a nearly straight row of 4 irregular cart- 

 ridge shaped spots below middle, between veins 2 and 6 ; cilia 

 as in forewings, but more orange. Under side of forewings 

 orange-yellow, dorsal two-thirds black; markings of cell and 

 lower three spots of transverse series reproduced ; cilia as 

 above. Hindwings and cilia light yellow-ochreous, without 

 markings. 



Distinct by £he absence of markings on underside of hind- 

 wrings. 



The larvae feed on Imperata arundinacea (Graminacm). The 

 larvae when full grown are one inch in length, pale green ; the 

 two anterior segments are smallest. When half-grown the 

 head is totally black ; when full-grown light brown, with the 

 usual black V-shaped mark and black ring round the head. 

 The larvae when full-grown constructs a sheath similar to the 

 one it feeds in ; closes up both ends and casts the skin. The 

 pupa is at first ,pale olive-gi'een, gradually becoming light 

 brown, and is about half an inch long. The pupal state is ten 

 to twelve days. Each larvae conceals itself by uniting the 

 edges so as to form a sheath where it remains, when feeding, 

 which is usually at night; it protrudes its head just outside 

 the sheath and nibbles the edges of it; when one sheath is 

 devoured a second is formed. 



Fernshaw, Oakleigh, and Murrumbeena, Victoria; Sydney 

 and Balmoral, New South Wales ; Cairns (Miskifi), Mackay 

 {Turner), Queensland ; Hobart, Tasmania ; from November to 

 February. 



56. Apaustus sunias, Feld. 



{ramphila sunias, Feld., Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien. Math. Nat. 

 CL, xl., p. 462 ; n. 54, 1860; Ocyhadistes walkeri, Heron., Ann., 

 Nat. Hist. (6), xiv., p. 106 ; Ancyloxyplia agraulia, Hew., Desc. 

 Hesp., p. 45, n. 3, 1868.) 



Male and female, 17-24 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdo- 

 men blackish, densely clothed with orange hairs, abdomen 

 latterally yellow, beneath whitish., Antennae blackish 

 annulated with yellowish, apex of club black. Legs yellowish. 

 Forewings elongate, triangular, costa nearly straight, termen 

 obliquely rounded, less rounded in male ; btackish-fuscous, 

 with bright orange markings ; a broad streak from base to just 

 before two-thirds of costa, filling up whole of cell, except a 

 narrow streak of ground color; an irregular triangular spot 

 immediately beneath costa at five-sixths, anterior edge be- 

 coming confluent with costal patcli in male ; an oblique trans- 



