292 Mr. H. T. Stainton's Descriptions of 



Labial palpi white, more or less suffused with crimson,' and in- 

 distinctly marked specimens with three small black spots exter- 

 nally. Antennae pale fuscous, the basal joint in front pale 

 yellow, behind and the tip crimson. 



Anterior wings crimson, with seven oblique white streaks from 

 the costa, and five from the inner margin (the first four on the 

 inner margin are frequently yellow), and with a white streak at 

 the apex, in which is a black spot. The four first costal streaks 

 are of rather irregular form, and not dark-margined ; the 5th, 6th 

 and 7th are more regular in form, distinctly dark-margined, and 

 their lower portion is suffused with the crimson ground-colour; 

 the intervening costal space between the 5th and ttth streaks is 

 also whitish. The first dorsal spot is very small ; the second 

 reaches to the fold (though sometimes the upper part of it is de- 

 tached from the base) ; the third and fourth cross the fold, and 

 are there whiter (less yellow) than on the inner margin ; the fifth 

 streak is a slender white one at the anal angle, and is rather indis- 

 tinctly dark-margined. Before the apex is a curved white streak, 

 in which there is a distinct round black spot, from beyond which 

 two crimson rays intersect the pale yellow cilia. Cilia of the inner 

 margin grey. 



Posterior wings dark grey, with grey cilia. 



Thorax yellowish-white, with the sides and a central streak 

 crimson, sometimes much suffused with crimson. Abdomen 

 greyish-fuscous, beneath silvery. 



Anterior legs with femora silvery, spotted with crimson ; tibiae 

 crimson ; tarsi — first joint crimson, with the apex dark fuscous ; 

 other joints white, tipped with fuscous. Middle legs with the 

 femora and tibiae crimson, speckled with white ; tarsi white, 

 spotted with brown-black. Posterior legs beneath silvery, above 

 with the tibiae pale-fuscous, and the tarsi whitish, spotted with black. 



A variable insect ; in some specimens the crimson ground- 

 colour is very bright; in others it is much suffused with grey, 

 and looks dingy ; the dorsal spots also vary from white or whitish 

 to canary-yellow. 



It is a true Gracilaria in every respect, and when alive must he 

 magnificent. 



All the specimens I have seen were captured by Mr. Sylvester 

 Diggles, at Moreton Bay, North Australia. 



In the Collection of the British Museum, and in my own, 



Gracilaria plagata, n. sp. (PI. X. fig. 2.) 

 Alis anticis ochraceo-griseis, olivaceo-tinctis, fascia 'obliqua 



