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REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, V. 



obscure darker green median discal dot; cilia whitish-green. 

 Hindwings with termen rather strongly bowed; colour, lines,. 

 discal dot, and cilia as forewings. Underside green-whitish. 



This little species is nearesti C. nejolanus. The frenulum is 

 very slender. Although the jDalpi are unusually small, the tongue 

 is well developed. Type in Coll. Turner. 



. Q.: Stradlu'oke Island; in rel;)ruary and August; two speci- 

 mens. 



Gen. 12. M a x a t e s . 



Maxates Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p.436; Hmps., Moths Ind. iii. 

 p. 505. 



Face smooth. Tongue well-developed. Palpi IJ; second joint 

 long, thickened with rough scales beneath; terminal joint stout, 

 obtuse in ^, \. Antennse of ^ pectinated, apices simple; of 9 

 simple. Thorax and abdomen not crested; thorax only slightly 

 hairy beneath. Posterior tibise with all spurs present; in ^ 

 dilated, terminal spurs shortened, and a tuft of long hairs in a 

 groove on inner side. Hindwings with a strong rounded costal 

 expansion; fienulum in ^ present but weak, retinaculum near 

 base of forewing. Forewings with 3 and 4 connate or stalked; - 

 11 anastomosing with 12. Hindwings quadrate, acutely angled 

 and strongly produced on vein 4; 3 and 4 stalked, 6 and 7 stalked, 

 8 closely approximated to cell for a short distance, diverging 

 before middle; discocellulars somewhat angled on vein 5, posterior 

 curved and becoming strongly oblique towards dorsal angle of 

 cell; costal edge of cell considerably over §. Type M. coelataria 

 VVlk., from India. 



A small genus differing from Prasinocyma in the shape of the 

 hindwings. 



46. Maxates tanygona. 



Eucldoris tanygona Turn., Tran.s.Roy.Soc.S.Austr. 1904,p.220. 

 Q: Mount Tambourine, 11. 



Gen. 13. E r e T M P U S, n.g.[6p6T/xo7roy?, paddle-footed.] 



Face smooth. Tongue well-developed. Palpi over 1; second 

 joint thickened with roughisli hairs; terminal joint well de- 



