150 



Adelaide, etc., South Australia. Eighteen specimens ; from 

 November to February. The imagoes frequent the blossoms of 

 Globe amaranth (Gomphrena). 



72. O. rectivitta, Mab. 



Pamphila rectivitta, Mab., Pet. Nouv. 3 Ent. ii. 3 p. 237, 

 1878. 



d 9 > 22-24 mm. Head, antennae, thorax, and abdomen 

 Mackish ; antennse beneath spotted with yellow ; club rather 

 narrow, yellow beneath, apiculus fuscous. Thorax and abdo- 

 men beneath yellow. Legs yellowish. Forewings elongate, 

 triangular, costa nearly straight, termen oblique, hardly 

 bowed, blackish-fuscous, with orange markings; whole of cell 

 and costal area, from base to end of cell, orange; a small, 

 short, elongate streak lying on lower edge of cell; a direct 

 transverse fascia from vein 1 to vein 6, more or less dentate 

 on either side, but more so posteriorly ; an irregular triangular 

 spot, its apex directed toward costa (representing subapical 

 series of spots) lying midway between extreme apical spot of 

 fascia and posterior extremity of orange cellular patch ; a 

 streak along vein 1 and another, more distinct, along dor- 

 sum; stigma moderate, running along anterior edge of fascia, 

 from vein 1 to near vein 5 , more or less broken into spots ; 

 cilia dark-fuscous, becoming orange on terminal half round 

 anal angle. Hindwings with termen rounded, slightly more 

 prominent in middle ; an oval spot of orange in posterior ex- 

 tremity of cell; an orange submedian band, about twice as 

 broad as fascia of forewings, from vein 1, where it is con- 

 tinued as a streak to base of wing, to vein 6 ; both edges 

 irregular, lower somewhat scalloped in <$ ; a small spot rest- 

 ing on middle of vein 7 and touching apex of band, generally 

 separated in 9 '> both fascia of forewings and band of hind- 

 wings much abbreviated in 9 > cilia yellowish-orange, with 

 fuscous spots at extremities of nervules. Under-side of fore- 

 wings black, basal portion of cell dark-fuscous, apical area 

 and upper-half of termen mixed with dull-greenish yellow; 

 an interrupted orange streak along termen narrow from vein 

 2 to apex ; markings of upper side, except stigma, reproduced 

 in yellow and finely edged with fuscous. Cilia as above. 

 Hindwings bright greenish-yellow; markings of upper side 

 reproduced, but paler, and outlined finely with d ark- fuscous ; 

 dorsal broadly yellow; cilia orange, with a black basal line 

 ending at vein 1. 



Types probably in Coll. Staudinger, Berlin Museum. 

 Specimens of this species were submitted to Professor Mabille, 

 who returned them as above. 



