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6808. Cacyparis ceira. (Plate CLXXXVI. fig. 17.) 

 Cacyparis ceira, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) Tiii. p. 18 (1901). 



$ . Head and thorax olive-browu irrorated with silvery scales ; 

 palpi yellow in front ; pectus, legs, and abdomen yellow. Fore 

 wing olive-browu siiflfused with grey and thickly irrorated with dark 

 brown except on costal area, the grey extending to costa on post- 

 medial area ; the basal area irrorated with silver except towards 

 costa ; an obliojue antemedial line of raised silvery scales from costa 

 to median nervure ; a boss of raised blue-black scales at middle of 

 inner margin, defined by yellowish, with some silver scales before it 

 and a curved band of silver scales beyond it from submedian fold 

 to inner margin ; a silvery discoidal spot with a spot bej'ond it in 

 discal fold and another above it below costa ; a subapical yellow 

 ocellus with black centre, its lower part bisected by a yellow streak, 

 an oblique line of silver scales before it from costa ; a terminal 

 series of small triangular silver spots ; cilia silvery. Hind wing 

 wholly yellow. Underside of fore wing yellow with a fuscous 

 brown patch from below costa beyond middle to submedian fold 

 near termen where it ends in a point. 



Hah. GiLOLo, 1 $ type. Exp. 40 millim. 



6809. Cacyparis melanolitha. (Plate CLXXXVI. fig. 18.) 



Cacyparis melanolitha, Turner, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxxiv. p. 344 

 (1909). 



S . Head and thorax red-brown irrorated with silvery scales, 

 the metathorax with fuscous patch ; palpi, pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 orange-yellow. Fore wing with the basal area red-brown to costa 

 before middle and to middle of inner margin, sparsely irrorated 

 with silvery scales and with its outer edge defined by some silvery 

 scales ; a boss of blue-black scales at middle of inner margin ; the 

 rest of wing pale red-brown sufi'used with grey and irrorated with 

 dark brown except at middle and apical part of costal area and on 

 terminal area from discal fold to tornus ; an oblique silvery striga 

 from costa beyond middle, a spot at upper angle of cell, and a spot 

 in discal fold beyond the cell ; an elliptical yellow subapical ocellus 

 with black centre bisected by a yellow streak ; cilia sufi'used with 

 silver. Hind wing orange-yellow ; a fuscous black patch on 

 terminal area from just below apex to vein 4. Underside orange- 

 yellow ; fore wing with oblique fuscous black subterminal patch 

 from below costa to vein 3. 



Bab. Queensland, Kuranda {Dodd), 2 cT . Exj). 30-34 millim. 



6810. Cacyparis insolitata. 



Cacyparis insolitata, Wlk. xxvi. 1572 (1862) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 441, 

 pi. 198. ff. 0,5a; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 126; Kirby, Cat. Lep. 

 Het. p. 284. 



Ballaiha atrotumens, Wlk. xxxiv. 1215 (1865). 



Head and thorax brown irrorated with silvery scales ; palpi 

 with the 1st and 2nd joints yellow ; pectus and legs yellow, the 



