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avgias, Linn., but the postmedian band is never continued 

 along the veins as in that species. 



Kuranda and Cooktown, Queensland ; six d" and one 

 9 ; taken in March and April. 



Types in Coll. Waterhouse. 



Telicota eurychlora, n. sp. 



d" , 32 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark-fuscous, 

 densely clothed with greenish-yellow hairs, palpi ferruginous 

 yellow; beneath v/hitish-yellow. Antennae fuscous, annu- 

 lated with whitish, club beneath orange, apiculus well deve- 

 loped. Legs orange-yellow. Forewings elongate, triangular, 

 costa straight, termen oblique ; dark-brownish-fuscous, with 

 orange-yellow markings ; a broad costal streak from base to 

 end of cell, intersected by veins on posterior half, and leav- 

 ing costal edge narrowly fuscous ; whole of cell filled in with 

 orange-yellow ; 3 narrow cuneiform interneural subcostal 

 spots, posterior edges excised, at | from base, lying between 

 veins 6 and 9, placed obliquely ; an oblique series of 5 quad- 

 rate spots at I from base, reaching from vein 1 to vein 6, all 

 excised on either side, 2 upper small, lower 3 rather large ; a 

 moderately thick dorsal streak from base to j ; a patch, scales, 

 and hair lying above vein 1, from base nearly to stigma; 

 stigma narrow, fuscous, oblique, from vein 1 to vein 4, bisect- 

 ed by veins 2 and 3, edged posteriorly by dark-fuscous; cilia 

 dark-fuscous, becoming ochreous-orange around tornus. 

 Hindwings with termen rounded, slightly prominent at tor- 

 nus ; colour as in forewings ; markings orange-yellow ; dorsal 

 and basal hairs orange-yellow ; an ovoid spot in posterior end 

 of cell ; a rather broad postmedian band extending from vein 1 

 to vein 6, lower edge crenulate, upper edge irregular, continued 

 as a fine streak along vein 1 to termen, sometimes a small 

 elongate spot just above vein 6 ; cilia orange, becoming fus- 

 cous towards costa. Underside of forewings dull -orange-yel- 

 low ; markings of upperside, except stigma, reproduced ; basal 

 third of cell dark-fuscous ; dorsum fuscous throughout ; pos- 

 terior edges of lower 2 quadrate spots suffusedly edged with 

 dark-fuscous. Hindwings dull-orange-yellow, with a some- 

 what greenish tinge, markings of upperside faintly repro- 

 duced in dull-orange ; an elongate cuneiform streak of rather 

 bright-orange lying between veins 1 and 2. 



9, 32 mm. Head, etc., as in J ; markings as in c? , 

 but ground colour darker ; subcostal markings suffused with 

 fuscous, anterior half of cell filled with ground colour, the 

 3 large quadrate spots less excised at edges. Hindwings ?s 

 in (S . Underside of both wings as in S , but more tinged 

 with dull-greenish-yellow. 



