BY A. J. TURNER. 605 



wings angulated, and sometimes strongly produced on vein 4; a 

 strong costal expansion at base; frenulum in ^ present but 

 slender, in 9 obsolete. Forewings with 3 and 4 connate or 

 short-stalked, 6 connate or short-stalked, 11 free. Hindwings 

 with 3 and 4 long-stalked, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 touching cell at a 

 point near base, then rapidly diverging; discocellulars not angled 

 on vein 5, moderately oblique, dorsal sometimes curved so as to 

 become strongly oblique. 



Differs from Hemithea in the presence of middle spurs in ^. 

 Type, M. ineeki Warr., from the Louisiades. 



1. Hindwings dentate 2. 



J Hindwings angled, not dentate 3. 



'2. Hindwings crenulate-dentate "JO. tetralopha. 



Hindwings strongly produced in an acute tooth on vein 



4, not otherwise dentate 1\. decorata. 



3. Wings with pale green basal blotches 72. venusta. 



Wings without basal blotches 4. 



4. Abdomen with metallic crests, ^ antennal ciliations 1^.. 73. militaris.- 

 Abdomen without metallic crests, (J antennal ciliations | 74. ametalla. 



70. Metallochlora tetralopha. 



Euchloris{V) tetralopha Low., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1898, 

 p.43. 



(J^. 25-28 mm. Crown and fillet pale yellowish-green; face 

 fuscous-red. Palpi in ^ 1, terminal joint minute; in 9 11) 

 terminal joint \; fuscous-red, beneath whitisli. Antennae dull 

 purple, towards base whitish; ciliations in ^ \\. Thorax pale 

 yellowish-green. Abdomen, basal segments and tuft pale 

 yellowish-green; middle segments whitish densely irrorated with 

 purple, and with four or five large rounded median purple 

 crests with metallic reflections; beneath ochreous-whitish. Legs 

 brownish-ochreous; posterior pair ochreous-whitish. Forewings 

 triangular, costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen bowed, 

 oblique, wavy-crenulate; pale yellowish-green; an ochreons streak 

 along costa strigulated with dark fuscous; a dark fuscous dot on 

 end of cell at |; a line of cells showing unctuous reflections from 

 inidcosta through discal dot to near l)ase, there bent in a V to 



