606 liKVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPIERA, V., 



end on dorsum at 'j; a similai' subterminal liue parallel to termen, 

 preceded and followed by a few scattered purplish scales; a broad 

 ob^sCLire dark median shade from dorsum beyond middle, sinuate, 

 not reaching costa; a dull purple spot on tornus; a blackish 

 terminal line; cilia whitish, basal third pink. Hindwings with 

 termen dentate-crenulate, with a more prominent tooth on vein 4; 

 colour and markings as forewings, but auteiaedian line and discal 

 dot obsolete. Underside green-whitisli; forewings with a tornal 

 fuscous spot, hindwings with a larger apical spot; cilia mostly 

 fuscous. 



N.Q.: Kuranda, 5, 6, 7, 9. 



71. Metali.ochlora decokata. 



Thalerura{1) decorata Warr., Nov. Zool. 1896, p.369. 



(J. 26-28 mm. Crown dull olive-green; fillet j-ellow; face 

 yellow, upper and lower margin orange red. Palpi in (^ l\, 

 terminal joint minute; white, u[)per surface except ape.K orange- 

 red. Antennte dull reddish, towards base yellow; ciliations in 

 (J U. Thorax and abdomen dull olive-green; the latter with 

 two or three fuscous-reddisli median dorsal dots; beneath 

 whitish. Legs whitish. Forewings triangular, costa gently 

 arched, aijex acute, termen straight, oblique-; dull olive-green; 

 sometimes with sparsely scattered fuscous scales; a fine fuscous 

 costal line, towards apex interrupted; a fuscous spot becoming 

 orange-red on margin of dorsum at 'i, with several similar 

 minute dots on veins representing antemedian line; a similar 

 but more numerous series of dots on veins at f representing 

 postmedian line; a tine fuscous-reddish terminal line; cilia white, 

 with H slight reddish suffusion at apex and tornus. Hindwings 

 with termen produced in a long very acute tooth on vein 4, 

 straight on each side ef tooth; colour and markings as forewings, 

 but tirst line obsolete; a linear fuscous-reddish di.scal mark; 

 second tine angled, or obsolete; costal edge of tooth whitish; 

 cilia on tooth reddish; a fuscous dot on cilia on each side of base 

 of tooth. Underside green-whitish, with fuscous spots on cilia 



