( 3(i.j ) 



subcostal fiee, just before their stalk. Hindwiiigs with last two medians aud two sub- 

 costals stalked; radial as in forewings. Abdomen marked wilh three raised (lro|is 

 of golden scales; wings with semihyaline )iatclies near base. 

 Type : Chrywrnphe vemi.sto s)!. now 



To. Chrysomphe venusta -p. nov. 



Fornui)i(/s : dull mealy green, bluish-tinged, jialer yellow-green at base along 

 inner margin ; costa broadly ochreous straw-colour, the e.xtreme edge whitish, speckled 

 with reddish ; a reddish lilotch at base, and a reddish obli(pie streak at one-third 

 indicating the origin of first line, which is only di.stinct again on inner margin as an 

 olive-orange .spot ; a pale yellowish blotch beyond base reaching to beyond middle of 

 wing, forming a sinus outward between the first and third medians, and not touching 

 the inner margin ; cell-spot dark green ; second line at three-fourths, olive-oi'ange, 

 oblique and slightly curved ; marginal area narrowly paler green, sometimes lemon- 

 yellow; fringe lemon-yellow, with a very fine orange line at base, and a red spot at 

 apex of wing. 



H'tndwiiuja : like forewings, but with a round pale yellowish blotch close to base. 



Face, paljii above, fillet, and shaft of antennae red ; palpi below white ; vertex, 

 thorax, and abdomen green; the abdominal tufts golden. Underside silky whitish 

 green, with the pale patches yellowish ; co.sta of forewiug yellowish, with fu.scous 

 speckles and a red dash at apex ; anal angle of both wings and apex of hindwings 

 witli the fringe dark olive mixed witli reddish, above and below. 



h^xpause of wings : 3() — -SO mm. 



Five <^J from Cedar Bay, south of Cooktovvn, (Queensland. 



"4. Comostolodes deliciosa sp. nov. 



Forewin(/»: bright blue; costa yellowish, with red and fuscous atoms; hind- 

 margin with a row of bright rosy lunules, edged internally with yellowish white, and 

 witli a brilliant steely dot in the centre of each lunule on the liindmargin ; fringe 

 yellow. 



Hindivinijs : the same. 



Underside pale silvery blue, with the margins dull reddish. Face, palpi, vertex, 

 and collar reddish ; thorax blue; abdomen blue, with a broad reddish dorsal .stripe. 



Expanse of wings : 19 mm. 



One ? from Kunguran, Xatuna Islands, October 1894 (E. Hose). 



Euxena gen. nov. 



Foreivings : with co.sia well curved; apex rectangular; liiiiilniargin strongly 

 crenulate, vertical above, obliijue below. 



Hindn-iiKjs : with inner margin lengthened, liindmargin cn'nulatc ; a deeper 

 excision between veins 4 and 0. 



Antennae of c? quite simple; palpi porrecl, reaching .slightly in front of face, 

 terminal joint short; tongue present; frenulum pre.sent ; hind tibiae of S with four 

 spurs, hardly thickened ; abdomen without tufts. 



In forewings the fiist subcostal approximates to the costal, aud again to the 



