BY THOMAS P. LUCAS. 149 



Rhytia (Ophideres) crepidolata, sp.nov. 



(J. 60 mm. Head ochreous, forehead with slaty -grey tuft. 

 Palpi slaty-grey, 2nd joint with greyish-ochreous lines on outer 

 and inner sides, third joint with broad clavate tufted top 

 tipped with black. Antennae ochreous-fuscous. Thorax with 

 anterior part and patagia ashy-grey, posterior portion darker 

 grey mixed with black. Abdomen yellow or brick colour, 

 caudal appendage black. Legs olive-fuscous, anterior tibiae 

 with a white dot on upper surface and a pad of hairs ou 

 undersurface, orange at root, olive-fuscous in spread out 

 pad. Forewings with costa rounded, a{)ex acute, hindmargin 

 rounded, convex, inner margin rounded in a prominent projection 

 on basal f ; green-bronze, correlated with creamy-ochreous, and 

 crossed by numerous sinuous dark bronzy-green lines ; a dark line 

 from ^ costa to just before ^ inner margin, bordered posteriorly 

 by a creamy-ochreous line suffused in a light lunar patch ; a 

 median bronzy-green fascia suffused on anterior border into the 

 light lunar patch, })Osterior border from ^ costa obliquely to middle 

 of wing, thence at an angle to inner margin at J, bordered by a 

 suffusion of creamy-ochreous, shaded on costal portion by light 

 bronzy-green ; a diffused bronzy-green fascia with anterior border 

 sharply defined from f inner margin obliquely toward apex but 

 rounded just before costa to f costa, posterior border less sharply 

 defined from apex, indistinctly parallel with hindborder to anal 

 angle, more or less shaded on inner portion into ochreous or creamy- 

 grey, a patch of bronzy-green on hindmargin, diffused into a line 

 at f : cilia grey tinted with bronze. Hindwings yellow or brick 

 colour with a deep black border, f depth of costa sinuous and 

 irregularly and slightly prolonged at points on anterior border 

 narrowing to one-third the depth at anal angle; a white cilial 

 row of lunular spots. 



Geraldton (Messrs. Meek and Barnard). 



Allied to E. Hypermnestra, Cramer. 



