PAT^TA. 69 



moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal ridge of scales on 1st seg- 

 ment and crest on anal segment, the paired anal tufts small. Fore wing with 

 the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 3 and 6 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 a.nastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 

 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing strongly glossed with blue-black carbo. 



13. Fore wing grey-brown with hardly a trace of blue-black 



gloss consjncienda. 



6278. Patffita carbo. (Plate CLXXV. fig. 26.) 

 Phlegetonia carbo, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 302 (1852), 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black tinged with purplisli grey, the 

 palpi in front, frons, and dorsum of tegulae with some reddish brown : 

 pectus mostly white with some rufous in front ; tarsi ringed with 

 white; ventral surface of abdomen white, mixed with red-brown. 

 towards extremity. Pore wing glossy blue-black ; subbasalline in- 

 distinct, double, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; a single antemedial 

 line followed by a double line, slightly angled outwards just below 

 the cell and inwards at vein 1 : orbicular and reniform defined by 

 black and with traces of pale annuli, the former minute, round, the 

 latter narrow and somewhat constricted at middle ; a slight sinuous 

 medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postraedial 

 line double, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold 

 and incurved below vein 4, another double sinuous line beyond it 

 incurved below vein 3 ; traces of a pale minutely wavvd subterminal 

 line with black streaks beyond it between veins 6 and 4 ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules. Hind wing pure white, the terminal' 

 area fuscous, its inner edge emitting slight streaks on the veins and 

 angled inwards at vein 2 on which there are slight Avhite striae 

 towards termen ; a waved black terminal line and white line at base 

 of cilia ; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas suffused 

 with brown and irroi'ated with white, a blackish discoidal spot and 

 double postmedial series of minute streaks on the veins. 



Hab. Br. N. GrtNEA, Port Moresby, 4 S ; Queensland, Kuranda 

 (Simmonds), 1 (5, Brisbane (Turner), 1 c? , 2 $ , Taylor Bange 

 {Lyell), 1 2 5 Bockhampton, 1 c5' ; IN . Atisxealia, Port Darwin 

 (J. J. WaR-er), 1 J , 1 $ , Institute Is. (J. J. Walker), 1 $ . 

 Erj}. 36-40 millira. 



6279. Patseta conspicienda. 



Faieeta conspicienda, Wlk. xv. 1748 (1858). 



Fhlegetoiiia corvina, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii. p. 68, pi. 6. f. 1 (1880). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous black mixed with some grey ; 

 palpi whitish in front ,; pectus white, tinged Avith rufous in front ; 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen with the dorsal crest black, the 



