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H. picta Leach (167 f). Above very similar to the preceding species, but beneath the hindwing is picta. 
brown in the basal and marginal thirds, only the centre exhibiting a yellowish-white ground-colour. Queensland 
(Brisbane) to Victoria, October till January. 
H. crypsargyra Meyr. likewise resembles ornata ; above in the hindwing instead of the compact orange crypsargy- 
spot a narrower, longer small band, and beneath the white median band of the hindwing is broken up into 3 
distinctly separated spots. From the ,,Blue Mountains 44 near Sydney. 
H. mastersi Waterh. is larger, above in each wing with a large orange spot, in the forewing besides mastersi. 
with a subapical chain of very minute dots, and behind the upper end of the long strigiform A mark another 
very small yellow spot. Beneath much more abundantly light-spotted; almost more creamy than dark; spots 
similarly arranged as in ornata, but much more extensive. New South Wales, rarer than the preceding ones. 
H. idothea Misk. (<$ = dispar Ky .) is one of the largest Australian Hesperidae, still larger than idothca. 
donnysa (167 g). Recognisable by the large orange wedge-shaped spot of the hindwing above beginning in the 
$ already at the base of the wing and extending to 4 or 5 mm before the margin. Forewing with a large orange 
spot in the cell, and with a large ($) or small (^) similar one behind the lower cell-angle. Hindwing 
beneath not variegated, but dark brown, only the spots showing a little through from above. New South Wales, 
Victoria, and probably also Tasmania. 
H. chaostola Meyr. Above the J is exactly like donnysa (167 g), but instead of the two small discal chaostola. 
spots behind the cell-end of the forewing there is a small transverse spot, which is replaced in the $ by a 
yellow band from the lower cell-angle to the submedian area. Beneath in the hindwing instead of the punctiform 
spots small nebulous rings. New South Wales, Tasmania. 
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H. andersoni Ky. is so very similar to chaostola that it may be mistaken for it, but it is somewhat andersoni. 
smaller (B 28, $ 30 to 32 mm), and the spots on the forewing are less numerous; it lacks the small accessory 
spots exhibited in chaostola behind the two postcellular spots. Dandenong Ranges and Poowong in Victoria, 
December and January. 
H. donnysa Hew. (1 = rietmanni Semp.) (167 g) is a rather large species, above not dissimilar to donnysa. 
perronii (167 e), but with a large square spot at the cell-end. Above the spots are tinged with dark yellow, the 
large one in the disc of the hindwing being often darkened, the fringes always speckled. The figured specimens 
I took in November in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales; but the species also occurs in Victoria and 
South Australia and even goes as far as Tasmania. — The larva lives on Cladium, attains a length of 314 cm, 
it is dark green, the head large, oblong, greenish-brown with a distinct V-spot. It pupates in November. The 
imago flies in summer and is common; Lower saw very large specimens in Tasmania. 
H. chrysotricha Meyr. Low. might be the western race of donnysa, but it differs in the genitals. I 11 chrysotri- 
the forewing the small preapical band is much stronger, and the hindwing beneath shows a red-brown ground- cl,a - 
colour. West Australia. — cyclospila Meyr. <Sb Low. is quite similar, somewhat smaller, hindwing with a small cydospila. ■ 
central yellow spot; South-Eastern Australia and Tasmania. 
3. Genus; Toxidla Mab. (Telesto Bsd.). 
More than half a dozen of purely Australian Hesperid species form this genus, all of them being rather 
small and above dark brown with a few mostly small hyaline spots in the forewing and mostly qiiite uni-coloured 
hindwings, in contrast with the Hesperilla which invariably exhibit small orange spots in the centre of the 
hindwing. Cell of forewing long and pointed, the lower radial rises somewhat nearer to the upper radial than 
to the upper median. 
T. perronii Lair, (rf = doclea Hew., kochii Fldr., $ = arsenia Pldtz) (167 e, 168 b). and $ are perronii. 
so different that they were described as separate species and by different names. The <J, as our figure (made 
from co-types of kochii in Koch’s Collection) shows, has but one white longitudinal streak at the jiosterior 
half of the lower cell-wall of the forewing, a punctiform spot between the radials, and a small chain of 3 puncti¬ 
form spots before the apex. Beneath the hindwing is unicoloured dark brown; only in some specimens there 
is a central dot at the cell-end and the discal row of dots occurring so often in the genus. The $ shows in the 
forewing 3 discal spots, the hindwing is beneath dark brown without markings, so that it resembles do-uble- 
dayi-Q (167 e) which, however, has somewhat smaller spots and on the hindwing beneath an arcuate band. 
Queensland, not rare from November till February. 
T. malitldeva Low. Similar to perronii (167 a, 168 b), separated by the sexual stripe extending from malindeva. 
the base of vein 4 to before the last third of 1, by the broad transverse spot in the cell-end and the hindwing 
beneath showing before the distal third 2 small roundish punctiform spots between the veins 2, 3, and 4. The 
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