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This seems best distinguished from JUeiiiud by the much 

 longer and more slender palpi. The neurational character 

 in tlie hindwing may not be constant. 



((f/iabilis, Low. , 



19. Gen. Blenina, Wlk. 



Frons not projecting. Palpi moderate or long, ascend- 

 ing ; second joint moderately thickened with appressed scales, 

 not reaching vertex ; terminal joint moderate, not exceeding J. 

 Thorax with a small posterior crest. Abdomen with dorsal 

 crests on basal two or three segments. Posterior tibiae smooths 

 Forewings normal. Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate, 8 anas- 

 tomosing with cell at J. 



lic/te/iopa, Meyr. inetachri/sa ^ Turn. Hah. — Northern 

 Queensland : Townsville, Rockhampton, Brisbane. 



Blenina samphirophora, n. sp. 

 (o-a/x(^€t/)0(^opo9, bearing sapphires). 



:' , 23 mm. Head and thorax fuscous, mixed with 

 ochreous-grey-whitish, Palpi pale fuscous with two broad 

 whitish bars towards base. Antennae fuscous. Abdomen 

 ochreous-grey-whitish. Palpi pale fuscous with two broad 

 middle tibiae and tarsi barred with dark fuscous on upper- 

 surface. Forewings triangular, costa rather strongly arched, 

 apex rounded, termen scarcely bowed, wavy, scarcely oblique; 

 whitish densely irrorated with dark fuscous and to a lesser 

 degree with pale ochreous : antemedian blackish, from \ costa, 

 outwardly oblique, below middle lost in an ill-defined blackish 

 large dorsal spot ;- postmedian similar, from beyond midcosta 

 obliquely outwards, curved in disc on vein 4, angled inwards 

 on fold, ending on | dorsum ; a s.nall whitish suffused spot 

 on f costa, two black subterminal spots, which in oblique light 

 are a brilliant blue, between veins 4 and 5 and veins 6 and 7 ; 

 upper spot connected with costa by a blackish line edged 

 posteriorly with ochreous-whitish ; a fine short whitish- 

 ochreous streak midway between spots, and a second beneath 

 them ; cilia fuscous, bases barred with whitish, on apex and 

 tornus whitish. Hindwings with termen rounded; pale grey; 

 some grey-whitish terminal spots towards apex ; cilia as fore- 

 wings but whitish from midtermen to tornus and on dorsum. 



tffih. — Northern Territory: Port Darwin, in October; 

 one specimen, received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



20. Gen. Calathusa, Wlk. 

 Frons not projecting. Palpi very long, ascending ; second 

 joint rather slender, slightly rough, sometimes with a small 

 poJ^terior apical tuft; terminal joint short or rather long {\). 



