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REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



38. lod. meandraria, Gn. 



(lodis meandraria, Gn. ix, 355.) 



(J$. 26-27 mm. Face and fillet orange, crown green. Palpi 

 orange, terminal joint short. Antennae white, pectinations 8. 

 Thorax green, slightly hairy beneath. (Abdomen bx'oken.) Legs 

 green above, white beneath, anterior femora and base of coxse 

 with orange streaks, anterior tibia? and tarsi orange above, 

 posterior tibiae in ^ not thickened. Forewings with costa 

 moderately arched, hindmargin oblique, faintly sinuate ; veins 3 

 and 4 separate, 6 separate or from point with 9, 11 anastomosing 

 or connected by bar with 12 and then with 10 ; bluish-green, 

 costal edge orange ; lines moderate, snow-white, margined with 

 rather darker green, pai-allel, discal third curved outwards ; first 

 from beneath middle of costa to ^ of inner margin, second from 

 costa near apex to | of inner margin : cilia green, tips whitish. 

 Hind wings with hindmargin strongly rounded ; veins 3 and 4 

 from a point or stalked ; white ; a curved second line indicated 

 only by very faint greenish margins ; cilia green, tips whitish. 



Hobart, Tasmania ; two specimens. 



39. lod. hyjnithrona, n. sp. 



5. 26 mm. Head bluish-green, fillet white. Palpi whitish- 

 green, terminal joint short. Antennae white. Thorax bluish- 

 green, thinly hairy beneath. Abdomen green -whitish. Legs 

 whitish, anterior pair ochreous-tinged above, anterior coxae green. 

 Forewings with costa gently arched, hindmargin rather oblique, 

 hardly rounded ; veins 3 and 4 separate, 6 out of 9, 1 1 anastomo- 

 sing with 12 and then with 10 ; bluish-green ; lines moderate, 

 white, ill-defined, rather irregular ; first from middle of disc to 

 middle of inner margin ; second from beneath costa at f to f of 

 inner margin, tending to form spots on veins, rather sinuate 

 inwards near inner margin : cilia pale green, tips whitish. Hind- 

 wmga with hindmargin strongly rounded, slightly bent on vein 4 ; 



