116 



Male and female, 35-40 mm. Head, palpi, antennse, thorax,, 

 legs, and abdomen dark fuscous, thorax and abdomen sparsely 

 clothed with yellowish hairs, palpi and thorax beneath ferru- 

 ginous, abdomen beneath fuscous, with four whitish segmental 

 rings, club of antennae beneath ochreous. Forewings elongate- 

 triangular, costa faintly sinuate in middle, term en obliquely 

 rounded ; blackish, fuscous, with bluish tinge ; basal hairs yel- 

 lowish; a narrow, obscure, yellowish streak along inner mar- 

 gin from base to middle ; stigma black, oblique ; cilia dark 

 fuscous. Hindwings with termen slightly sinuate before 

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

 light ochreous; cilia dark fuscous, becoming snow-white from 

 middle of termen to anal angle. Under side of forewings 

 ferruginous, basal and median area more or less dark fuscous ; 

 some bluish scales near base. Hindwings beneath with color 

 as in forewings ; basal area bluish tinged ; a transverse row of 

 4 equi-distant bluish spots beyond middle of wing, less distinct 

 in male ; cilia as above. 



Known by the snow white cilia of hindwings. 



Cairns, Cardwell, and Mackay, Queensland ; in January. 



68. Erynnis fulgida, Misk. 



(Hesperilla fulgidus, Misk., Proc. Boy. Soc, Queensland, p. 

 151, 1889.) 



Male and female, 28-32 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, antennae, 

 and abdomen aark fuscous, thorax and abdomen, densely 

 clothed with orange hairs, beneath orange, antennae yel- 

 lowish beneath, apical half of club blackish beneath. Legs 

 yellow. Forewings elongate, triangular, costa nearly straight, 

 termen oblique, faintly sinuate on lower third; dark fuscous, 

 densely irrorated more or less throughout with fine ochreous 

 orange scales, more dense on basal half of wing ; markings yel- 

 lowish, semi-hyaline ; an oblique transverse series of 3 elongate 

 subcostal spots, upper nearly obsolete, at two^thirds from 

 base ; a moderate, somewhat ovate spot lying on vein 4 and 

 immediately below lower subcostal ; a second,, cartridge^shaped, 

 obliquely below, lying near base of veins 3 and 4 ; a third, 

 large and similar, lying at base of veins 2 and 3, posterior 

 edge excised ; cilia fuscous-whitish, becoming dark fuscous on 

 basal half. Hindwings with termen sinuate before middle ; 

 color as in forewings; base, cell, and inner margin densely 

 clothed with long bright ochreous hairs, becoming very dense 

 along vein 1 ; a transversa sub-median series of 4 yellowish semi- 

 hyaline parallel spots, between veins 2 and 6, third spot more^ 



