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but ill defined; a terminal dark band with its inner edge irregular; hindwing silky ochreous, tinged on terminal 
area with brown; a brown cellspot, and sinuous outer and subterminal lines. Cooktown, Queensland; the $ 
only known. 
T. crocata Guen. (= signifera Walk., scanda Fldr.) (27 c). Forewing deep yellow, with a slight crocata. 
olive flush, extending on costa towards apex and on inner margin to middle; terminal half redbrown the post- 
median area with purplish suffusion except towards costa; the inner edge of the brown area sinuous; subbasal, 
double inner, median, and outer brown marks on costa with whitish spaces between them; inner line pale, in¬ 
distinct, excurved at middle; reniform stigma outlined with black with the centre yellow and purple in upper 
and lower parts, small and oval; outer line black, wavy, incurved below vein 4; subterminal line yellow, 
faint towards costa, somewhat dentate above tornus; terminal black dots marked inwardly with yellow; 
fringe yellowish white, with purplish fuscous patches above middle and at tornus; hindwing orange, the costal 
and terminal areas reddish brown, the terminal band with the inner edge sinuous, incurved on submedian fold; 
head, thorax, and abdomen mainly yellow; in the $ these are all black brown with slight admixture.of yellow; 
in the fore wing the yellow becomes black brown suffused with purplish; the spots on costa white; the median 
spot round; inner line dark and indistinct; in the ab. meridionalis Walk. the head and thorax have brown meridiona- 
scales mixed with the yellow; the forewing with brown on the basal area and on costal half of the subbasal and 
inner lines; the ab. albimixfa ab. nov. (= ab. 2 Hmps.) (27 d) ^ has the forewing whitish in place of yellow; albimixla. 
the basal area suffused with redbrown leaving irregular white markings. The species occurs throughout India, 
in Ceylon, Burma, Formosa, Queensland, and N. Australia. 
T. sexpunctata F. (= inda Fldr., acerba Fldr.) (27 d). $ Forewing yellow with a faint olive flush sexpunctata. 
extending on costa to near apex and on inner margin to middle; the terminal half red brown, the postmedian 
area with a faint purplish tinge except towards, costa, the terminal area yellowish except at apex; outer 
line redbrown, obsolescent beneath a costal spot, ther excurved to vein 4, there bent inwards and oblique 
to inner margin; subterminal line from a pale costal striga, then indistinct; hindwing ochreous whitish, the 
veins and terminal area redbrown; head and thorax yellow, olive-tinged; abdomen ochreous; in the $ the head 
and thorax are redbrown tinged with grey; the abdomen brown with the segmental bands ochreous; fore wing 
redbrown with a grey tinge; a triangular whitish outer spot on costa; hindwing grey broAvn; the ab. imbuta imbuta. 
Walk. (27 d) has a whitish subquadrate spot at middle of costa as well; the Punjab, Madras, Ceylon, and Burma. 
In a form occurring in the Nilgiri Hills and Ceylon, subsp. oehreola subsp. nov. (= ab. 1 . Hmps.), the head, ochreola. 
thorax, and forewing are more ochreous yellow; an aberration of this form, ab. viridescens ab. nov. (= ab. 2 viridescens. 
Hmps.) (27 d) has the head and thorax olive brown; the forewing with the yellow area tinged with green. 
T. detrita Btlr. ? (= clarissa Btlr. $) (27 e). J Fore wing yellow to middle of inner margin and beyond detrita. 
middle of costa; the terminal half red brown, with purple and white suffusion on postmedian area except 
towards costa, and the terrnen yellow except at apex; a patch of olive yellow suffusion below base of cell; 
inner line diffuse, olive yellow, from a slight brown costal mark; orbicular stigma a faint olive yellow spot; 
reniform olive brown defined by dark brown, small and oval, placed on the dark area; a slight olive brown 
bar from middle of costa; a triangular yellowish white outer patch on costa; outer line indistinct, dark, 
arising at vein 6, excurved to 4, then incurved; subterminal yellowish, obscure except towards tornus to which 
it is outbent; black terminal dots; fringe yellow mixed with brown; hindwing with basal half yellow, terminal 
half brown; the $ has the basal half of forewing more olive, leaving a yellow patch on costa; the hindwing 
wholly suffused with brown; in the ab. pallidula ab. nov. (27e) the yellow of the head, thorax, and forewing is paler; pallidula. 
the forewing with the brown band before outer line narrower and the terminal area yellow. An Australian 
species occurring in Queensland, N. Australia, W. Australia, and N. S. Wales. 
T. thapsina Trnr. (27 d). $ Forewing yellow, the terminal area redbrown, its inner edge obliquely thcvpsina. 
curved and more or less angled inwards beyond upper angle of cell; hinclwing redbrown, the base and cell yel¬ 
low; fringe yellow mixed with red brown at base; in the $ the forewing shows a dark outer spot on costa, some¬ 
times thickened into a band joining terminal dark area, rarely a minutely waved yellowish outer line from 
cell to inner margin near the inner edge of the dark area, and traces of a yellowish subterminal line; in ab. 
bilineata ab. nov. (27 e) the forewing has a strong brown inner line angled outwards on median vein and a simi- bilineata. 
lar outer line descending from the dark costal spot; in both this and the type form of the $ the yellow 
may remain pure as in the $, or become more or less brown tinged except along costa; the darkest form 
of the ab. bilineata, when the whole wing is deep brown below the subcostal vein is the ab. xuthota Hmps. xuthota. 
(27d) described as a distinct species. Queensland and N. Australia; Little Kei Island. 
T. flavonigra Swinh. (27 e). Forewing with basal area ochreous white with a fuscous patch at base of flavonigra. 
