BY E. MEYRICK, B.A., F.E.S. 897 



fuscous interrupted hindmarginal line : cilia pale whitish-fuscous. 

 Hindwings formed as in ^ ; colour, second line, hindmarginal 

 band and line, and cilia as in forewings. 



Newcastle, New South Wales; Melbourne, Victoria; George's 

 Bay, Tasmania ; in January, not uncommon locally. The larva 

 is 10-legged, rough, brown; segments 4-11 with very large 

 flattened obliquely rising projections on each side of back, these 

 sometimes green ; a white spot on side of 11th segment : it feeds 

 on Exocarpus ctqjressiformis. This cux'ious larva was shown me 

 by Mr. Kershaw, and is familiar to the Melbourne entomologists. 

 The extraordinary dissimilarity between the sexes in the case of 

 this and the following species is very curious ; I am not awai-e of 

 the purpose served by it, but the differences are quite analogous 

 in the two species. 



77. lod. jnej'oides, Walk. 



(Comihaena 2yi'>i^oides , Walk. 580 ; Thalassodes scitissimaria, 

 ib, 1564 ; Comihaena calcinata, Feld. pi. cxxvii, 23.) 



(J. 32 mm. Head white, mixed with blue-green. Palpi blue- 

 green, beneath white, terminal joint moderately long. Antenufe 

 white, pectinations 2J. Thorax and abdomen white, closely 

 mixed with blue-green. Legs white, anterior tibiae and tarsi 

 banded with fuscous, posterior tibiae with groove including pencil 

 of hairs, apical projection unusually long, Forewings with costa 

 gently arched, hindmargin waved, rather obliquely rounded ; veins 

 3 and 4 separate, 6 from a point with 9, 11 free ; blue-green, 

 thinly scaled, with numerous scattered short white transverse 

 strigulas, closest towards base ; posterior half of costa suftused with 

 white and irrorated with brownish ; lines moderately broad, 

 fascia-like, white ; first from \ of costa to -. of inner margin, 

 closely followed by a white discal spot touching costa ; second 

 from I of costa to | of inner margin, slightly curved, double, 

 margins subdentate : cilia whitish, basal half green. Hindwings 

 with inner margin long, hindmargin rounded, crenulate, bent on 



