898 REVISION OP AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



vein 4 ; veins 3 and 4 short-stalked ; colour and markings as in 

 forewings, but strigulse on median area more scanty and dot-like, 

 interspace of second line with a small ferruginous mark beneath 

 costa. 



9. 38 mm. Head ferruginous, forehead green. Thorax green, 

 with a quadrate ferruginous posterior spot. Forewings with 

 groundcolour and strigulfe as in ^ ; markings ferruginous strigu- 

 lated with paler ; a costal sti'eak, dilated and extending to inner 

 margin at base ; first line as a narrow very irregular fascia fram 

 ^ of costa to ^ of inner margin ; a short transverse spot from 

 costa before middle ; a moderately broad hindmarginal band, 

 containing a green spot towards costa near its anterior edge, 

 anterior edge sinuate below costa and rather deeply concave below 

 middle : cilia light fuscous-grey, with paler median and terminal 

 lines. Hindwings with transverse vein margined with ferru- 

 ginous ; hindmarginal band as in forewings, but green spot almost 

 obsolete. 



Duaringa and Brisbane, Queensland ; several specimens. ]\Ir. 

 W. H. Miskin has bred both sexes from the larva. 



78. lod. hyrsopis, Meyr. 



(Thalassodes byrsopis, Meyr., Troc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 1886, 

 249.) 



J, 34-40 mm. Face reddish-brown, fillet whitish, crown light 

 green. Palpi reddish-brown, white beneath. Antennte pale 

 reddish-ochreous, base whitish. Thorax light green. Abdomen 

 whitish, mixed with pale green. Legs whitish, anterior tibige and 

 tarsi light ferruginous. Forewings with costa slightly arched, 

 hindmargin slightly rounded ; veins 3 and 4 from a point, 6 out 

 of 9, 11 free ; light bluish-green, with very obscui^e scattered 

 transverse whitish strigulse ; costal edge whitish-ochreous ; a 

 nearly straight very obscure whitish line from middle of costa to 

 5 of inner margin : cilia pale green, tips whitish. Hindwings 

 with hindmargin obtusely bent on vein 4 ; colour and cilia as in 



