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cellular spot edged posteriorly with black ; postmedian band 

 edged on either side with well-defined black spots ; a large 

 roundish black patch edged with orange at tornus. 



The sexes do not differ except in size. 



We (Meyrick and Lower) formerly called this insect pal- 

 marum, Mre. (T.R.S.S.A., p. 110, 1902), but the true pal- 

 marum of Moore is, so far as I know, not found in Australia. 



An idea prevalent amongst some of my confreres that 

 this insect is OIivesren-'<, of Herrich-Schasffer, but his figure 

 and especially the description certainly do 7iof apply to this 

 insect : but I shall reserve my criticisms until I revise the 

 group. 



Mackay, Townsville, Queensland: nine specimens: taken 

 in February and March. 



Types in Coll. Lower. 



Apaustus hetero bathra, n. sp. 



d 9 > 20-24 mm. Head and thorax dark-fuscous, thorax 

 clothed with yellowish hairs, palpi fuscous, mixed with 

 orange, beneath yellow. Abdomen dark-fuscous, more or less 

 densely clothed with orange, sometimes showing segmental 

 rings, beneath wholly yellow. Antennae dark-fuscous, annu- 

 lated beneath with yellow ; club of (S beneath yellow, apicu- 

 lus black : club of Q black, apiculus black. Legs yellow. 

 Forewings elongate, triangular ; blackish-fuscous, with orange 

 markings ; a broad costal streak, from base to posterior ex- 

 tremity of cell ; cell filled in with orange ; a confluent patch 

 (indicating the usual 3 subapical spots) beneath costa at | ; 

 an oblique of 5 quadrate spots extending from vein 1 to vein 

 6, 2 upper small, and meeting the apical patch, 3 lower very 

 much larger, with irregular edges : cilia black, becoming 

 orange around tornus. Hind wings with termen rounded; 

 colour as in forewings, basal and dorsal hairs yellow : mark- 

 ings orange : a small spot at posterior extremity of cell : a 

 moderately broad, postmedian band, edges, somewhat crenu- 

 late from vein 1 to vein 6, continued along vein 1 almost to 

 base ; cilia yellow, orange at base. Underside of forewings with 

 area along termen greenish-yellow : markings of upperside 

 reproduced in orange, dorsum and wing below vein 2 black- 

 ish : basal half of cell black. Hindwings yellowish-green ; 

 markings of upperside reproduced in orange : cellular spot 

 edged posteriorly with black : postmedian band edged on 

 either side with narrow black lunules : a blackish elongate 

 streak along dorsum, becoming blotch-like at termen. 



Differs from its Australian congeners by the absence of 

 stigma in S \ the club of the antennae affords a fairly accu- 

 rate guide in the determination of the species, but until we 



