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some specimens; three obliquley placed spots; first cartridge- 

 shaped, between veins 3 and 4, below and before the small 

 spot ; second similar, immediately below, between veins 2 and 

 3 ; third irregular, largest, strongly excised on either side in 

 middle; stigma blackish, narrow, oblique anteriorly parallel 

 to 3 previous spots ; a narrow suffused streak along vein 1 from 

 stigma to base ; a moderate streak along inner margin from 

 beneath irregular spot to base; cilia dull ochreous, at base 

 fuscous, round anal angle orange. Hindwings with termen 

 faintly sinuate above anal angle; color as in fore wings, basal 

 and inner marginal hairs orange ; markings orange ; a 

 moderately broad irregular-edged median transverse band, be- 

 tween veins 1 and 6, continued as a streak along vein 1 to 

 termen, band narrowed posteriorly, veins 3 and 4 obscurely 

 outlined with fuscous on band ; a small spot, sometimes absent, 

 above apex of band ; cilia orange-yellow, at base fuscous. 

 Under side of forewing fulvous, dorsal two-thirds, except 

 median third of termen blackish ; markings of upper side, ex- 

 cept stigma, reproduced ; lower half of cell becoming black, 

 except a median orange spot; cilia as above. Hindwings 

 beneath yellowish-orange, becoming broadly tawny around 

 termen ; markings of upper side somewhat obscurely repro^ 

 duced, ed,ged above and below by indistinct blackish lunules ; 

 an obscure patch of blackish scales above anal angle ; cilia as 

 above. 



This species stands in some collections as Olivescens, 

 Herr. Sch., but the figure of that species in Ent. Stett. Zeit. (p. 

 79, n. 60, t. 3 tig. 14., 1869) does not agree with the species 

 under review, but denotes a species described further on. The 

 occasional additional spot above apex of transverse band of 

 forewings appears on both the Brisbane and New Guinea 

 specimens, but the Brisbane specimen lacks additional spot 

 above transverse band of hindwings. Our male specimens 

 (17 in number) agree exactly with the description given in 

 Elwes and Edwards, Rev. Or. Hesp., 256, 1897. 



Sydney, New South Wales; Mackay, Brisbane, and 

 Kuranda, Queensland ; in October and December. Also from 

 Ambonia and New Guinea. 



58. Telicota ohara, Plotz. 



{Hc^sperilla ohara, Plotz., Stett. Ent. Zeit.. xliv., ,p. 227, 1883.) 



Female, 36 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen blackish, 



thorax and abdomen more or less clothed with orange hairs, 



beneath yellowish. Antennse dark fuscous, annulated with 



