TRAPEZITINAE 
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TOXIDIA 
280. Toxidia melania Waterhouse. Fig. 667, 668 , 669. 
Victorian Naturalist 1903, p. 54. 
Above. Forewing brown-blaek: very rarely faint traces of up to three transverse subapical dots, 
and a diseal dot in area 3, whitish: cilia brown-blaek: a very narrow oblique discal sexmark from 
before vein la to beyond vein 3, whitish narrowly edged inwardly with black. Hindwing brown- 
black: cilia greyish white. 
Bexeatii. Forewing brown: central area dark brown: dorsum grey: rarely a discal dot in area 
3, whitish. Hindwing brown faintly suffused grey: traces of three obscure rings, in cell, in base of 
area 7, and in area la before half, brown: traces of a series of discal rings, broAvn centred grey. 
?. Asom Foiwing browm-black: a pair of discal dots in areas 2 and 3, Avhite, hyaline; cilia brown- 
black. Hindwing brown-black: cilia gTey. 
Bexeath. Forewing brown: central area dark brown: dorsum grey: hyaline dots as above. Hind¬ 
wing as in male. 
hoc. Knranda 1 2 3 4 12. Herberton 1. 436^ 19 9 . 
Resembling T. mnijlcora Ploetz from the Am Is., which is a darker species with a less oblique 
sexmark. 
Genus NEOHESPERILLA nov. 
Antennae about twothirds the length of costa: clubs abruptly bent before the middle and with tips 
pointed (Fig. AJ 9, 10). Palpi with third joint moderate and porrect. Forewing with costa nearly 
straight and termen shorter than dorsum; vein 5 nearer to vein 6 than to vein 4: vein 2 nearer to vein 
4 than to base of wing: male with a linear discal sexmark. Hindwing -with one or two small hyaline 
discal spots. 
Type. Neohesperilla crocea Miskin. 
These four species form a natural group of similar facies, and their separation helps to relieve the 
large genus Hesperilla. Knowledge of their early life stages will almost certainly provide further points 
of difference. 
281. Neohesperilla crocea Miskin. Fig. 647, 655, 753. 
Proceedings Royal Society Queensland 1889, p. 150. 
(?. Aeo\^. Forewing dark grey-broAvn: base faintly sutfused yellow-broAvn: a spot in end of cell and 
produced narrowly along median, whitish, hyaline: three transverse subapical dots, whitish, hyaline; 
a small discal spot in base of area 3, and a naiwow’ one across ai’ea 2, ■whitish, hyaline: cilia brown, 
at toriuis faintly yellow: a narrow discal sexmark from clorsnm to vein 4, black. Hindwing dark 
grey-brown faintly suffused yellow-brown: a pair of small discal spots in areas 2 and 3, whitish, 
hyaline: cilia yellow-brown. 
Bexeath. Forewing yelloAV-brown: dorsum broadly grey-broTvn: hyaline spots and dots as above 
and outwardly edged brown. Hindwing yellow-broAvn with a patch at tornus, brown: hyaline spots as 
above and outwardly edged brown: sometimes an obscure discal dot in area 6, brown. 
2. Above. Forewing dark grey-brown: a spot in end of cell and three large transverse subapical 
dots, whitish, hyaline: a discal spot in area 2 and a smaller one in base of area 3, whitish, liyaline: 
sometimes a small discal spot in lower edge of area la, pale yellow: cilia brown at tornus faintly 
yellow. Hiiidwlng dark grey-brown suffused olive browm; a small discal spot in area 3 and usually 
another in area 2 , whitish, hyaline: cilia yellow-brown, at veins obscurely brown, 
Bexeath. Forewing olive brown: dorsum broadly grey-brown: hyaline spots and dots as above, 
outwardly edged brown. Hindwing olive brown with a patch at tornus. brown: an obscure spot in 
eell, brown: a series of obscure discal spots, brown, those in areas 2 and 3 centred whitish, hyaline. 
Prince of "Wales Is. 5 6 . Banks Is. 2. Cooktown 10. Cairns 6 S 10. Kuranda 1 2 345G78 
9 11 12. Atherton 3. Herberton 2. Townsville 11. Brisbane (type). Darwin 1 2 9. 26cP 35$. 
