138 



d 9 > 34-40 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and! 

 abdomen dark-fuscous, palpi and thorax beneath whitish,, 

 antennae spotted beneath with ochreous- whitish, apiculus red- 

 dish. Legs reddish-fuscous. Forewings elongate, triangular r 

 moderate ; costa nearly straight, termen gently rounded,, 

 oblique ; rather light-golden fuscous, with yellowish-white 

 markings ; basal third of wing clothed with yellow hairs ; a 

 rather large quadrate spot in posterior end of cell, slightly 

 indented anteriorly and posteriorly ; a moderately large 

 cartridge-shaped spot at base of veins 3 and 4, and a larger 

 one, more quadrate, immediately below ; a suffused roundish 

 spot lying on vein 1 about middle ; a transverse row of 

 three cartridge-shaped subapical spots ; a streak of yellow 

 along dorsum to middle, and a similar streak along vein 1 to 

 middle, meeting spot ; cilia fuscous, yellowish-white round 

 anal angle. Hindwings with termen rounded; colour as in 

 forewings; base and dorsum clothed with long yellowish 

 hairs ; an orange median band divided into three parts by 

 intersecting veins ; upper part elongate-ovate, with a short 

 projection toward termen ; median very small ; cuneiform ; 

 lower somewhat similar to last, but larger ; lower edge mixed 

 with orange hairs ; cilia yellow, becoming fuscous at base. 

 Under-side of forewings dull-reddish ochreous; markings of 

 upper-side reproduced; basal half of costa and upper half of 

 cell yellow ; basal half of wing and lower half of termen dark- 

 fuscous, inclining to black ; cilia paler than above. Hind- 

 wings rather bright-reddish ochreous; markings distinct, 

 snow-white, narrowly edged with fuscous; a spot in cell 

 toward base; a second at § from base between veins 6 and 7, 

 and three others at § from base in a curved series between 

 veins 1 and 4; cilia pale-ochreous fuscous. 



Brisbane to Cape York. Eleven specimens; from Feb- 

 ruary to May. 



50. T. eliena, Hew. 

 Deec. Hesp., p. 32, n. 24, 1868; Herr.-Sch., S.E.Z., n. 66, 

 pi. iii., fig. 13, 1869; iacchus, Semp. (nee Fabr.), Mus. God. Lep., 

 xiv.,p. 49, 1878; Telesto ccccilius, Plotz, S.E.Z., p. 380, xlv., 1884; 

 eliena, Misk. (in part), Ann. Qld. Mus., p. 78, 1891; iacchus, M. 

 and L. (nee Fabr.), T.R.S., p. 87. 



Note. — Miskin's iacchus is partly symmomus, Hb., and 

 maheta, tf , Hew. The true iacchus was apparently unknown 

 to him. 



d 9 , 34-38 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen 

 dark-fuscous, clothed with pale-greenish-yellow hairs, beneath 

 pale-yellowish ; antennse fuscous, annulated with ochreous, 

 posterior half beneath ochreous, terminal half of apiculus 

 beneath reddish. Legs dull-orange. Forewings elongate, 

 triangular, costa gently arched, termen bowed, oblique; 



