148 MR. R. COLLETT ON ECHIDNA ACANTHION. [Feb. 3, 



fore wings with a blackish longitudinal shade covering the lower half 

 of the wing ; hind wings with an indistinct diffused discal fascia 

 of same colour. 



Expanse of wings 1^ inch. 



162. Badamia exclamationis. 



Pap. exclamationis, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 530 (1775). 

 $ Pap. ladon, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 284. fig. C (1/82), 

 Poona, April, May, and June ; Belgaum, September ; Mahab- 

 leshwur, May ; Matheran, May ; Bombay, July, August, September. 



163. PaRATA ALEXIS. 



Pap. alexis, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 533 (1775). 

 Poona, May, June, November, December ; Bombay, July, August, 

 and September. 



164. Gangara thyrsis. 



Pap. thyrsis, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 532 (1775). 



Bombay, August to December. Very common just before dark. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE DC. 



Pig. 1. Hijioscritia shim, (J , n. sp., p. 138. 



2. , 2. 



3. Ixiasjkoda, (^, n. sp., p. 142. 



4. ,2- 



5. meridionalis, J, n. sjj., p. 140. 



fi. colaha. cf, n. sp., p. 141. 



7. Megisha gunga, n. sp., p. 133. 



8. Catochri/sops theseus, cT, n. sp., p. 131. 



9. Isoteinon ftexilis (upper side), n. sp., p. 147. 

 10. (underside). 



11. Zizera ossa. J, n. sp,, p. 132. 

 12. .$. 



13. Ixias ciimballa, c?, n. sp., p. 141. 



14. , 2- 



3. On Echidna acanthion from Northern Queenslaud. 

 By Robert Collett, C.M.Z.S. 



[Received January 13, 1885.] 



(Plate X.) 



We have in the course of late years several times been informed 

 that the genus Echidna extends into Queensland. But although a 

 considerable number of specimens have been obtained from that 

 part of Australia, and several of them have found their way to 

 Europe, still no satisfactory examination of their specific characters 

 as compared with those of the other species has, so far as I know, 

 ever been published. 



Thus in Dr. Bennett's interesting paper on Ornithorhynchus and 

 their burrows (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 161) it is mentioned 

 that the Echidna is very numerous in the Gomarry scrubs, Merugadeu ; 



