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Paljn and face whitish ochreons below, bright rosy above : antennae white : 

 vertex, thorax, aucl abdomen reddish grey. Underside dnll red, suffused with 

 darker. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



Two a, three ? ?, from Cedar Bay, Cooktown (A. S. Meek). 



Chrysolene gen. nov. 



Akin to Clinjsocrusped'i Hmpsn. ; the i antennae pectinated ; hindlegs not 

 reduced, the tibiae with two pairs of spurs ; forewings acute and produced at apex ; 

 both wings more or less strongly elbowed in middle ; first subcostal of forewings 

 not stalked with the other four, but anastomosing with them to form the areole ; 

 hiudwiugs with last two medians from angle of cell or on a short stalk. 



Type : Chrysolene deciarm Wlk. {Hyria). 



10.5. Chrysolene cruoraria sp. nov. 



Forewings : yellow, with bloo<l-red strigulations ; basal half of wing from one- 

 third of costa to anal angle, puiisle, edged with blood-red striae ; a similar-coloured 

 blotch at apex, surrounded l)y blood-red striae; so that the yellow ground-colour 

 is restricted to an oblique fascia from middle of costa to anal angle and along outer 

 half of costa and the hindmargin except at the elbow ; fringe yellow. 



Himlwings : with the whole area except a narrow marginal space purple, 

 edged with blood-red striae ; the marginal space yellow, with red striae ; fringe 

 yellow ; a darker jiurple cell-spot. 



Underside the same, but duller. Face and palpi yellow, edged with red ; 

 Tertex, antennae, and thorax purple ; abdomen yellow. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



One ? from Cedar Bay, (,'ooktown (A. S. Meek). 



Another ? from the same locality has both wings wholly suffused with purple- 

 red, except the hindmargin on either side of the elbow, which is narrowly yellow; 

 abdomen and underside of wings all red. 



loo. Chrysolene dilucida sp. nov. 



Foreicings : with ground-colour yellow ; costal area broadly olive-grey, this 

 colour running down as far as the median vein at the end of cell and beyond the 

 outer line, where it runs to the elbow ; the inner half of the wing is suffused with 

 deep orange, intersected by the yellow veins ; the two lines yellow and broad ; the 

 first at one-fourth, angled in the cell, then obliipie inwards; second at two-thirds, 

 angled at vein 4, and again bent near inner margin ; cell-spot small, black ; fringe 

 yellowish. 



Hindwinqs : with the centre hyaline, the base and marginal fascia olive-fiiscons, 

 the latter very broad towards inner margin, and containing yellowish patches wliicli 

 appear to indicate a sulimargiual line ; the hyaline space with a grey cloud from 

 •costa ; fringe yellowish. 



Underside pale yellowish, in the forewings tinged in places with red. Face 

 yellowish ; vertex and front of thorax grey ; thorax and abdomen yellow, duste<l 

 with grey. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



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