BY VT. H. MISKIX. 
1519 
Underside : Primaries . — Light brown; costal margin ochreous- 
yellow ; two short transverse bands within the cell, each lightly 
margined with steel blue ; a transverse band beyond the cell, not 
reaching quite across the wing ; an outer marginal band, the 
two latter lightly margined on inner side with steel blue, all of 
orange-scarlet ; three black spots arranged triangularly near 
centre, but rather closer to base of wing. 
Secondaries . — Ground colour rather darker ; five transverse 
somewhat curved, not always reaching quite across the wing and 
generally more or less broken, bands of rich scarlet, very nar- 
rowly lined, generally on each side, ^vith brassy reflections which 
in some positions appear black ; a basal and baso-costal short 
band of scarlet. Termination of nervules marked in black in 
fringe. Thorax and abdomen, above dark brown, beneath 
wiutish ; apex of club of antennae reddish. Ex, inches. 
Hob. — Newcastle, X.S. Wales; Fremantle, W. Australia. 
The specimen (the ^ is at present unkno^vn) from which my 
description is made is contained in the Australian Museum at 
Sydney, where I had the opportunity of examining it through 
the kindness of INIr. A. S. Olliff, of that institution, and by whom 
it was captured. 
It is nearest to H. Ignita, Leach, but is distinguishable from 
that species (of which I have a good series in my own collection) 
on the upper side by the generally brighter colour, by the clearly 
defined marginal borders, and the absence of the copi>erish radia- 
tions from the outer margin along the nervules in the posterior 
w'ing ; and on the under side by the somew’hat different arrange- 
ment of the scarlet bands and the colour of the metallic lx)rders 
thereto. In Leach’s plate and descriptions the sexes of Ignita 
are reversed. 
This is a still further addition to the number of s[>ecies of this 
l>eautiful genus, making in all ten with which I am acquainted 
