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elongate than others, and extending beyond apices of other 3 ; 

 cilia yellowish, orange, blackish at base. Under side of both 

 wings yellowish orange; dorsal third of forewings blackish; 

 markings of upper side reproduced and edged with shining- 

 golden ; markings on hindwings reproduced and similarly 

 edged. Cilia on both wings as above. 



Known by its intense coloring and similarity of upper and 

 under side of both wings. 



Mr. Illidge has taken the larvae on millett. 



Brisbane, Mackay, and Duaiinga, Queensland; in December. 



69. Erynnis mathias, Fab. 



{Hesperilla mathias, Fab., Ent. Syst. Supp., p. 433, n. 289, 

 290, 1798; Hesperia thrax, Led., Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wren, 

 1855, p. 194, plate 1, figs. 9-10; H. agna, Moore, P.Z.S., p. 791, 

 1865; H. chaya, ih. I.e., 791, 1865; Pamphila mencia, Moore, 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), xx., p. 52, 1877.) 



Male and female, 30-36 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, legs, and 

 abdomen dark fuscous-golden, clothed with fuscous-golden, 

 hairs, head and palpi sometimes greenish-tinged, palpi and 

 thorax beneath whitish-ochreous. Antennae dark fuscous, 



beneath ochreous, spotted with blackish, club ochreous beneath, 

 apical half reddish. Forewings elongate, triangular, costa 

 gently arched, termen obliquely rounded, somewhat sinuate 

 below middle; dark fuscou&-golden, somewhat shining; basal 

 and inner marginal areas clothed with greenish-yellow hairs; 

 markings of male rather obscure, in female well developed, 

 whitish ; a spot in end of cell ; a second immediately above ; 

 an irregular oblique transverse series of 3 roundish spots be- 

 neath costa at two-thirds from base ; a small roundish spot 

 below and slightly beyond, resting on vein 4, almost obsolete 

 in male ; a moderate roundish spot obliquely below and before, 

 lying near base of veins 3 and 4 ; a large irregular diamond- 

 shaped spot, lying near base of veins 2 and 3, only represented 

 in male by a narrow streak, from which proceeds a very in- 

 wardly oblique dull whitish, black-edged stigma, reaching 

 nearly to middle of vein 1 ; a moderate ovate spot lying on vein 

 1 beyond middle, obsolete in male; cilia dark fuscous, tips 

 whitish. Hindwings with termen sinuate above anal angle; 

 color as in forewings, dorsal two-thirds, except termen, densely 

 clothed with ochreous hairs. Under side of both wings dark 

 fuscous, clothed with ochreous-whitish scales, except dorsal two- 

 thirds of forewings, which is fuscous, markings of upper side, 

 except stigma, reproduced; a very small whitish sub-median 



