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Kuranda, Cooktown, Queensland; Port Darwin; from 

 January to May. Eighteen specimens. I have seen specimens 

 from Celebes and New Guinea. Folder's type came from Am- 

 boina. 



74. O. HYPOMELOMA, n. Sp. 



d 1 9, 24-28 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and 

 abdomen dark-fuscous; palpi whitish beneath, antennae 

 annulated with whitish, thorax and abdomen clothed above 

 with yellowish hairs, beneath whitish. Legs yellow, mixed 

 with fuscous ; d 1 with stigma. Fore wings elongate, tri- 

 angular, costa straight, termen gently bowed ; dark-fuscous, 

 with orange markings ; a streak along costa, from base to 

 vein 9, leaving a narrow costal streak of ground-colour on 

 extreme edge ; in 9 the yellow streak is interrupted in 

 middle by ground-colour ; cell filled in with orange, in 9 

 interrupted by intrusion of ground-colour ; 3 moderate, 

 cartridge-shaped, subcostal spots at about f- from base, upper 

 one about J the size of other 2, lower one in tf tending to 

 touch costal streak ; an oblique transverse band of 5 irregu- 

 larly cartridge-shaped spots, posterior edges excavate, anterior 

 edges obtuse, lying between veins 1 and 6, upper 2 half the 

 size of remaining 3 ; stigma narrow, obscure, lying between 

 veins 1 and 4, and closely appressed to anterior edge of 

 3 lower spots of oblique band; a narrow dorsal streak, from 

 base to near anal angle ; cilia dark-fuscous, becoming yellowish 

 round anal angle. Hind wings with termen rounded, 

 slightly prominent on vein ; dark-fuscous ; markings orange ; 

 basal hairs orange ; a roundish spot in cell ; an oblique band 

 of 5 spots as in forewing, lowest spot continued along vein 

 1 to base and termen, more obscure in $ ; a small some- 

 what ovoid spot lying on vein 6, well separated from oblique 

 band ; cilia yellowish, mixed with fuscous at base. Under- 

 side of forewings dark-fuscous, apical and terminal area irror- 

 ated with yellow scales ; markings of upper-side, except 

 stigma, reproduced ; cilia ochreous-fuscous, with a fine blaek 

 line along termen. Hindwings yellowish-orange; markings 

 pale-yellow ; an ovoid spot in posterior end of cell ; a cunei- 

 form spot lying on vein 6, representing spot of upper side; 

 3 very oblique, cartridge-shaped spots at § from base, lying 

 between veins 2 and 6, upper one inclining to be double and 

 reaching close to termen ; indications of a suffused spot on 

 vein 1 at | from base ; a well-marked elongate cuneiform 

 black streak from base to termen ; extreme dorsal edge 

 yellow-whitish ; cilia as in forewings, but becoming pale- 

 yellow round anal angle. 



This species, which appears scarce, is an excellent mimic 

 of Taractrocera dolon, Plotz, but the antennas afford an 



