134 ANNALS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
AXIOCLETA PERISEMA n. sp. 
[7repLo-r}[jLos, distinguished.] 
<£. 40-48 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi blackish. 
Antenna^ white; pectinations 10, whitish-ochreous. Abdomen white, 
basal segments often with broad transverse bands of brilliant red,, 
two blackish penultimate transverse lines, tuft ochreous. Legs 
white ; anterior pair anteriorly dark-fuscous. Forewings tri- 
angular, costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen obliquely 
rounded ; snow-white ; without markings, or with a fuscous erect 
mark from dorsum at ±, and a sinuate interrupted fuscous line 
from beneath costa before apex to f termen ; cilia white. Hind- 
wings with termen rounded ; snow-white ; cilia white. 
9. 44-54 mm. Palpi white. Antennal pectinations 1. Fore- 
wings without markings. Abdomen without red bands, and with 
only one penultimate transverse blackish line ; tuft voluminous, 
whitish-ochreous. 
A beautiful species curiously variable. 
Types in Coll Turner. 
N.Q. Evelyn Scrub (3,500 ft.) near Herberton, in December 
and January ; a series bred by Mr. P. P. Dodd. 
Note on Localities. 
Having recently visited the Cairns-Herberton district, I am 
able to give some notes on localities, which may be useful. The 
town of Cairns is situated on a low sandy coastal plain, largely 
occupied by tea-tree (Melaleuca ) swamps. A few miles from the 
coast the hills arise abruptly, covered by dense tropical jungle locally 
known as "scrub." Kuranda, just above the Barron Palls, is some 
15 miles from Cairns and about 4 miles from the coast. It is at an 
altitude of 1,000 feet, but many of the insects from this locality 
have been collected in the Barron Gorge some 700 or 800 feet 
below. I think, therefore, it must be considered as only a part of 
the Cairns locality. Immediately behind Kuranda the hills rise 
to 2,000 feet, but I think little collecting has been done at the 
higher levels. The whole of this district must be considered from 
an entomological point of view as an island of the Malayan 
Archipelago. 
