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I have included in this genus should be merged into Pad- 

 raona, Watsn., but the presence of the stigma precludes this, 

 as mcesa, Mre., which is the type of Padraona, has no stigma. 

 Padraona differs from Ocybadistes by the absence of the 

 s,tigma, so that the only two Australian species retained in 

 Padraona will be lascivia, Rosen., and heterobathra, Low. 



69. O. maenas, Feld. 



Pamphila mamas, Feld,, Sitz., Akad., Wiss., Wien., Math., 

 Nat., CI., p. 462, 1860. Apaustus dschilus, Plotz, BerL, Ent. 

 Zeit., xxix., p. 229, pi. mccccxciv. (1885). Telicota mamas Elwes 

 •and Edwards, P.Z.S., xiv. (4), p. 256, 1897; M. and L., T.R.S., p. 

 103. Ocybadistes mamas, Swinh., T.E.S., pi. ii., fig. 13, p. 21, 

 1908. 



Brisbane to Cooktown, Queensland; from December to 

 June; also from New Guinea and Amboina (type locality). 



In Miskin's collection in the Queensland Museum there 

 are 5 specimens of mamas and 1 9 augias, Linn. (var. i.), 

 standing under the name of olivescens, Herr.-Sch. I place 

 mamas in Ocybadistes, chiefly on account of its slender 

 palpi, but it would appear to be more at home in Telicota on 

 account of its general resemblance to that genus, but the 

 form of the palpi precludes this. 



Type in Coll. Folder. 



70. O. walkeri, Heron. 



Ann. Mag., N.H. (6), xiv., 1894, p. 106. Ancyloxypha 

 agraulia, OIL, Ann. Mag., N.H., 1888, p. 360, pi. xx., figs. 3a, 3b. 

 Apaustus sunias, M, and L. (nee Feld.), T.R.S., p. 101. 



Type in Coll. British Museum. Taken at Port Darwin, also 

 at Dammar Island. 



This species, which is subject to considerable variation, 

 ranges from Adelaide to Port Darwin, being also found in 

 New South Wales, Tasmania, and Brisbane to Cairns. Prob- 

 ably when its geographical range is definitely known it will 

 be found to occur wherever the couch-grass (Cynodon 

 dactylis) flourishes, that being one of its chief food plants. 

 The former description (T.R.S., p. 101) being in part defec- 

 tive, and not representing typical forms, I shall redescribe the 

 species, also the southern variety, which is deserving of a dis- 

 tinctive appellation, and which may ultimately be raised to 

 the rank of species. We formerly placed this species in 

 Apaustus, but that genus as now restricted is confined to South 

 America. The differences in Ocybadistes and Padraona 

 (Moore), structurally considered, are to my mind very slender. 



d 9 j 18-24 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen 

 blackish, densely clothed with orange hairs ; palpi and thorax 

 beneath whitish, upper half second joint of palpi orange.. 



