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TOXIDIA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
$ almost attains the size of dirphia (167 e). Likewise taken in Herberton, a district situate in a densely 
wooded hilly country, not far from Cairns in Queensland. Type in Lower’s Collection in Australia. 
crypsigram- T. crypsigramma Meyr. <L Lout, is unknown to me; the type in Lower’s Coll, in Australia. Described 
rna - from 2 bad specimens from Herberton (Queensland). Forewing golden oehreous; 2 small spots behind the apex 
of the stigma, a small subapical band from the costa, composed of 3 small white spots; the stigma itself complete, 
moderately thick, oblique, black. ,.Easily recognisable by the scanty spotting.“ 
sexguttaia. T. sexguttata H.-Schaff. (168 b) is a small, cpiite dark brown species with a few small whitish hyaline 
spots in the forewing. The $ usually lacks the white hindmarginal spot above. An insignificant, little known 
species from Queensland (Cairns and Rockhampton). 
doubledayi. T. doubledayi Fldr. (= dirphia H.-Schaff. nec Hew., leachi Fldr.) (167 e). In the above the spot 
in the cell-end is more hook-shaped or angular, whilst in the $ it is composed of 2 almost equally broad spots. 
Beneath the sjiots of the hindwing being arranged in a discal bow are confluent, forming a curved band. Queens- 
extranea. land to Victoria, throughout summery in places not rare. — In ab. extranea Plotz (168 b) the bindwing 
beneath lacks the central spot. 
parvula. T. parvula Plotz (= humilis Misk., ismene Newm.) (167 e) is at once recognisable by the large 
mark being bordered with light. Beneath the forewing is spotted as above, the hindwing shows on the earth- 
brown ground a darker central dot, and before the last third of the wing a darker discal band projecting distally 
in an almost right angle. Queensland to Victoria. I took the species near Sydney in October. 
leucostigma. T. leucostigma Meyr. & Low. is almost exactly like parvula (167 e), but the white markings around 
the sexual mark of the $ are more distinct, the preapical spot on the contrary smaller than in parvula ; the 
hindwing beneath is more monotonous, less marked. Queensland and New South Wales. 
tyrrhu.s. T. tyrrhus Mab. (= saxula Swh. nec Mab., bathrophora Meyr.) (168 b) is almost exactly like the 
preceding ones, but above all the white markings are absent except the comma-spot on the inside of the $ mark. 
Queensland. 
melania. T. melania Waterh. On being superficially regarded, the being above quite unicoloured almost 
looks like fuligo (175 b), the $ has but one indistinctly defined light central spot in the forewing. Forewing 
in the $ dark reddish-brown without markings except the very narrow dull whitish $ stripe which is sometimes 
accompanied in the $ by a fine (in the $ larger and sometimes double) spot at the base of vein 4. Hindwing 
beneath light brown, suffused with grey, sometimes there is before the distal third an arcuate row of 6 or 7 
small whitish spots. Kuranda (Queensland). 
parasema. T. parasema Low. from Queensland, is between tyrrhus and leucostigma ; the white falciform spot 
in the forewing is but very indistinct or quite absent. 
croceus. T. croceus Misk. ($ = satulla Mab.) (168 c) is very similar to xanthomera from which it differs in 
the presence of spots in the hindwing. According to Miskin, the $ of croceus neither has any spots in the 
hindwing, but this seems to be a mistake; Miskin had $$ of xanthomera before him, which he confounded 
with croceus. Above it superficially resembles tasmanicus. Queensland, in October and November. 
xanthomera. T. xanthomera Meyr. & Low. Type in the Coll. Lower in Australia. Very similar to croceus and 
formerly not distinguished from the latter, to be separated by the $ hindwing being spotless on both sides, 
d 30, $ 36 mm. Queensland, Victoria, and New South Wales, taken in March and September. The species 
is apparently not common. 
uniformis. T. uniformis Swh. is above and beneath quite unicoloured blackish-brown, only the somewhat 
undulating scent-stripe is grey and extends from vein 4 to behind the centre of the hind-margin. Frons and 
palpi below with a few greyish-yellow hairs. Ivey Is. 
xiphiphora. T. xiphiphora Low. is quite similar to croceus, but the £ differs in the much broader sexual stripe; 
the wings are broader and shorter, and in the $ the cordiform spot of croceus at the base of veins 2 and 3 is 
square and extends to the distal margin. Queensland, December till March. 
senta. T. senta Misk. is somewhat smaller (28 mm) than xiphiphora, the <$ wings more elongate; forewing 
dark golden brown, at the base densely covered with orange-yellow hair, the spots yellowish diaphanous: 1 
square spot in the cell-end, anteriorly strongly notched, below* it a dull roundish spot; stigma narrow, oblique, 
at its apex a cordiform spot, below it a small one, 3 small ones in a small chain before the apical area. 
In the hindwing a deep yellow oval in the disc between 6 and 7, a similar one between 3 and 4. Beneath the 
hindwing is quite yellow except a black spot near the hind-margin, the spots being light yellow. Queensland. 
