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Sydney, New South Wales ; Cooktown, Townsville, and 

 Mackay, Queensland. It has not occurred at Brisbane up to 

 the present. From November to January; nine specimens. 



63. Erynnis macleayi, Plotz. 



{Hesperilla Macleayi, Plotz., Stett. Ent. Zeit., xliv., p. 227, 

 1883; ] Pamphila autohjju, Misk., Proc. Roy. Soc, Queens- 

 land, 2, p. 147, 1889.) 



Male and female, 30-46 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, 

 and abdomen dark fuscous, pal,pi beneath yellowish, thorax and 

 abdomen clothed with yellowish hairs. Legs ochreous, fus- 

 cous tinged. Forewings elongate, triangular, costa nearly 

 straight, termen gently bowed, oblique ; dark purplish fuscous, 

 markings orange ; anterior half of costa dull orange ; an ob- 

 lique transverse series of 3 cartridge-shaped sub-costal spots at 

 two-thirds from base, posterior extremities excised; an in- 

 wardly oblique transverse row of 4 spots ; first very small, lying 

 on middle of vein 4 ; second cuneiform, obliquely below ; third 

 similar, obliquely below second ; third irregular quadrate, lying 

 below on vein 1, the lower third is continued as a fine streak 

 along vein 1 to base ; a streak along inner margin from base 

 to middle, posteriorly dilated ; stigma short, irregular, 

 broke 11 into 3 sjDOts, fuscous, lying close to anterior edge of 

 transverse spots; ciJia dark fuscous, becoming orange on lower 

 third of termen. Hindwings with termen sinuate above anal 

 angle ; color as in forewings ; basal and inner marginal hairs 

 orange ; a suffused streak in cell near base ; a rather narrow 

 sub-median transverse orange band, between veins 1 and 6, ex- 

 tremities suffused, hardly separated into spots by intersecting 

 veins, upper edge deeply sinuate below apex, posterior edge 

 somewhat lunulate ; cilia deep' orange, becoming fuscous on 

 upper two-thirds at base. Under side of forewings ferru- 

 ginous, tinged with pui^plish, much lighter on upper two-thirds 

 of termen; markings of upper side reproduced in ochreous; a 

 naiTO'W ochreous streak in cell ; cilia as above. Hindwings 

 beneath w^ith color as forewings, but somewhat tinged with 

 ochreous ; markings of upper side obscurely reproduced ; a dull 

 ochreous streak between veins 1 and 2 ; cilia as above. 



Easily recognised by the ipaucity of markings and absence of 

 coloring in cell on upper side of forewings. The stigma is 

 obscure and liable to be overlooked. The large female is of 

 exceptional size ; the average is about 36 mm. , 



Cardwell, Cairns, and Brisbane, Queensland ; ? Sydney, New 

 13outh Wales ; in November. 



