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costal fold on under-surface, extending from base to 3 costa 

 and nearly half across disc; pale-brownish with some fuscous- 

 brown irroration; an oblique darker shade, sometimes fol- 

 lowed by a pale shade from costa beyond middle to dorsum 

 before middle ; a reddish-brown or dark-fuscous reniform 

 spot, indented posteriorly, immediately beyond this; some- 

 times a series of fine fuscous dots representing postmedian 

 line, from | costa, at first curved outwards, then inwards to 

 mid-dorsum; another series of dots represents subterminal 

 line, in this line below costa is a short linear dark-fuscous 

 lunule, edged posteriorly by a pale line; a terminal series of 

 dark-fuscous dots; cilia fuscous, apices whitish barred with 

 fuscous. Hindwings with termen scarcely rounded : colour 

 and markings as forewings but without discal spot and lunule. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.Q., Kuranda, in March, April, and July; three speci- 

 mens received from Mr. Dodd, oif which one is in Coll. Lyell. 



Catada apoblepta, n. sp. 



(Apobleptos, conspicuous.) 

 d" , 40 mm. Head reddish-ochreous ; face and palpi fus- 

 cous; the latter extremely elongate (8). Antennae fuscous; 

 in d with tufts of long cilia (3) in basal half, but towards 

 apex cilia are short. Thorax brownish; collar reddish- 

 ochreous. Abdomen ochreous-yellow ; apical segments fus- 

 cous. Legs whitish; anterior pair suffused with fuscous. 

 Forewings triangular, costa straight, arched before apex, apex 

 rounded, termen obliquely rounded; fuscous; a bluish-white 

 line from J costa. to J dorsum, outJwardly curved; a similar 

 line from midcosta, sinuate first outwardly then inwardly to 

 mid-dorsum ; between median line and base ground-colour is 

 reddish-brown; a dark-fuscous dot in cell between lines; three 

 fine parallel bluish-white lines the first on disco-cellular, the 

 other two immediately posterior ; a large whitish subapical 

 blotch ; [extreme apex broken, cilia abraded]. Hindwings 

 with termen rounded; ochreous-yellow; a blackish terminal 

 band, very wide at apex, narrowing to tornus; [cilia abraded]. 

 Type in Coll. Turner. Though in poor condition, this is 

 a striking and unmistakable species. 



N.Q., Kuranda, in April ; one specimen received from 

 Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Genus Hypobleta, nov. 

 (Htipobletos, spurious counterfeit.) 

 Frons flat with a few projecting scales. Tongue well- 

 developed. Palpi moderate, slender, porrect; second joint 

 rather long, thickened with scales on upper surface towards 



