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cartridge-shaped, with its apex directed inwards, and its outer 

 edge does not reach more than beyond the middle of the spot 

 above ; whereas in the present species it is quadrate and 

 reaches to the extreme edge. These characters are constant 

 enough to warrant the assumption that it is a good species 

 and not a variety of croceus or xanthomera . 



Port Darwin. Fourteen specimens; in February, March, 

 and April. Cairns, Queensland. One specimen; in December 

 (F. P. Dodd). 



31. H. croceus, Misk. 



rf, Hesperilla croceus, Misk., P.R.S., Qld., 1889, p. 150. 

 9 , I.e. (nee croceus). Q , Hesperilla satulla, Mab., Comp. 

 Rend., Ent. Belg., vol. xxxv., p. 82, 1891. Telesto croceus, M. 

 and L., T.R.S., p. 79. 



I sent a 9 specimen to Mabille, who returned it as H . 

 satulla, Mab. (?), at the same time stating that the type was 

 now in Coll. Dr. Staudinger (since purchased by the Berlin 

 Museum). Herr Flanderky has sent me an excellent coloured 

 figure of the type satulla, which agrees exactly with 9 croceus, 

 Misk. Croceus is subject to some variation, especially in the 

 hindwings of 9 > the upper-side of which sometimes has the 

 two conspicuous median spots, and sometimes one only, and 

 in rarer cases practically absent, yet, strange to say, the two 

 are always present on the under-side, though sometimes 

 obscurely delineated. 



Type d croceus, Misk., in Brisbane Museum; type 9> 

 in Coll. Lower; type satulla, Mab., in Coll. Staudinger 

 (Berlin Museum). 



Port Darwin ; Brisbane, Cooktown to Cairns, Queens- 

 land ; February, March, and April. 



32. H. senta, Misk. 



9, Hesperilla senta, Misk., Ann. Qld. Mus. Supp., 1891. 

 Telesto senta, M. and L., T.R.S., p. 78. 



Having received better specimens from Mr. Dodd, taken 

 at Kuranda, I find that the d insect requires redescribing. 



d , 28 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax dark- 

 fuscous ; palpi and thorax yellowish beneath ; antennae 

 spotted beneath with whitish, apiculus reddish; abdomen 

 dark-fuscous, beneath yellow ; segmental margins yellowish. 

 Legs fuscous, yellowish tinged. Forewings elongate, tri- 

 angular; costa faintly sinuate in middle, termen hardly 

 rounded, oblique; dark-golden fuscous, thickly clothed on 

 basal half with short orange hairs; markings semi-trans- 

 parent, pale-yellowish; an irregular quadrate spot in pos- 

 terior end of cell, strongly indented anteriorly, lower edge 

 somewhat elongate; an ovoid spot, sometimes obscure, imme- 



