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Allied to Perroni, Latr., but abundantly distinct by 

 shape of stigma, cellular spot, and under-side of hindwings. 



I have dedicated this species to my wife (Eva Linda 

 May), whose keen interest in the Hesperiadce is of valued 

 assistance to me. 



Type $ , Coll. Lower; type 9> i* 1 Coll. Waterhouse. 



Herberton, Queensland. Two d 1 specimens and one 9 > 

 the latter in Coll. G. A. Waterhouse; taken by Mr. Dodd 

 in January. 



30. H. xiphiphora, n. sp. 



<S , 28 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax dark- 

 fuscous ; palpi and thorax beneath pale-yellow ; antennae 

 beneath spotted with yellowish, apiculus red. Legs and 

 abdomen yellowish-fuscous, abdominal segments yellow. 

 Forewings rather short, costa straight, termen oblique, nearly 

 straight ; fuscous ochreous ; basal half of wing clothed with 

 short dense orange hairs ; markings dull-whitish ; a some- 

 what sickle-shaped elongate spot in posterior end of cell ; a 

 small quadrate spot at base of veins 3 and 4, another slightly 

 larger immediately below ; a transverse series of 3 subapical 

 spots, median smallest; stigma black, very broad, erect, 

 entire, from just below vein 1 at § from base to base of veins 

 3 and 4 ; cilia fuscous, base darker, mixed with whitish 

 or terminal half. Hindwings with termen rounded; colour 

 and cilia as in forewings, base and dorsum clothed with 

 rather long orange hairs ; two moderate, well-marked, yellow- 

 whitish ovoid spots, separated by intervening veins just 

 beyond middle of wing at § from base. 



9, 30 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, 

 and legs as in <$ . Forewings with colour and markings as 

 in <S , but cellular spot irregularly 8-shaped and other spots 

 similar but much enlarged, spot at base of veins 2 and 3 

 quadrate ; a whitish quadrate spot lying on vein 1 in middle. 

 Hindwings as in d 1 , but lower spot much smaller and often 

 obscure ; cilia of both wings as in <$ . 



Under-side of all wings of both sexes thickly clothed 

 throughout with orange scales, excepting dorsum of forewings 

 and a patch above anal angle ; markings of upper-side, 

 except stigma, reproduced, and more or less edged with fus- 

 cous ; cilia more yellowish than above. 



Types in Coll. Lower. 



This insect is very closely allied to croceus, Misk., being 

 intermediate between that species and the following. It 

 differs from croceus primarily by the very broad stigma (of 

 which I have not met with intermediate forms), the shorter 

 and more abrupt wings and general contour. The female 

 •croceus has the spot which lies at the base of veins 2 and 3 



