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As mentioned above, the insect has been described, and 

 I have received a fine coloured drawing by R. Flanderky, 

 per favour Trustees of Berlin Museum, which decides the 

 question beyond any doubt, as the drawing delineates a 

 species totally dissimilar to tyrrhus, and not near anything 

 found in Australia so far as known to me. As the former 

 description embraced two forms I will redescribe the species. 



<S , 28 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen blackish- 

 fuscous, mixed with greenish-golden hairs, palpi and thorax 

 beneath whitish. Antennae fuscous, spotted beneath with 

 whitish, apiculus whitish. Forewings elongate, triangular, costa 

 gently arched, termen gently bowed, oblique ; dark-fuscous, 

 with a greenish-golden sheen ; without markings or very 

 rarely with 3 subapical dots ; stigma entire, rather broad, 

 whitish, sometimes appearing white, oblique, edged narrowly 

 on either side with blackish from above vein 1 to posterior 

 extremity of cell, anterior edge with a moderate projection 

 in middle, posterior edge moderately straight; cilia fuscous- 

 whitish. Hindwings with termen rounded; colour and cilia 

 as in forewings; without markings: a few golden-ochreous 

 hairs toward base. Under-side of both wings ochreous- 

 fusoous, dorsum broadly dull-whitish ; finely dusted with 

 whitish, especially hindwings; markings of upper-side, ex- 

 cept stigma, reproduced ; hindwings with dull-purplish 

 reflections and a curved postmedian series of dull-whitish 

 spots from beneath costse to vein 1 in middle, lying on some- 

 what darker ground colour; cilia as above. 



9, 30 mm. Head, etc., as in S ■ Forewings as in 

 d , but termen more bowed ; a white, somewhat quadrate spot 

 between veins 4 and 5 at base, sometimes absent ; a trans- 

 verse row of 3 white subapical spots ; cilia as in forewings. 

 Hindwings as in 3 . Under-side of wings as in d , mark- 

 ings of upper-side of d reproduced. 



Type 9 > in Berlin Museum (Coll. Staudinger) ; type S , 

 in Coll. Lower; types Bathrophora, in Coll. Lower. 



This species is subject to slight variation, but not of 

 sufficient importance to separate the forms. The presence of 

 the subapical spots in the S is comparatively rare, and the 

 absence of same in 9 is very rare ; the interneural quadrate 

 spot of 9 i s subject to variation in size, becoming almost 

 obsolete in some specimens, but is generally indicated. I 

 have now twenty-nine specimens taken at Mackay, Kuranda,, 

 and Cairns from December to March. 



27. H. crypsigramma, M. and L. 

 Telesto cryp si gramma, M. and L., T.R.S., p. 81. 

 Herberton, Queensland. 

 Type in Coll. Lower. 



