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orange, tinted with rose-red ; cilia cream-colour. The 9 * s 

 slightly larger, but similar. 



I had a pair from Cooktown, but have lost the $. The rose- 

 red veius render this species very distinct and beautiful. 



Family SATURNID^E. 



AntherjEA Loranthi, sp.nov. 



<$Q. 100-145 mm. Head, antenna?, thorax, and abdomen deep 

 chocolate-brown. Collar deep smoky-brown. Forewings with 

 costa rounded, apex rounded, hindmargin wavy, oblique, deep 

 chocolate-brown. Costa at base deep smoky-brown, in a line con- 

 tinuous with collar, and gradually thinning out to § ; discal ring 

 in some specimens rather angulated, ovoid to rhomboid, consisting of 

 a fine line externally black on outer border, brown on inner border, 

 and lined on inner border with lighter brown, and an inner dark- 

 brown ring lining outer border, which stretches for § towards 

 inner border and contains a lighter shade within ; a broad band 

 from f costa to § inner margin, deep smoke-colour with lighter 

 smoky-grey on either border : cilia chocolate-brown. Hindwings 

 coloured as forewings ; discal rings more rounded, darker exter- 

 nally with lining of smoky-grev ; a narrow band from j of inner 

 margin, in some few specimens smoky-grey, in most simply a 

 darker ground-colour and almost obsolete, curving parallel to hind- 

 margin toward § costal margin, but in all cases losing its smoky- 

 colour and in most becoming obsolete before reaching costa. 

 Undersurface plain brown with discal rings as upper surface, and 

 with veins prominent and brown. 



Brisbane to Duaringa. 



About a dozen years ago or more Mr. Illidge climbed a eucalypt 

 tree, 40 yards high, on the bank of the Brisbane river on what is 

 now known as the North Quay. He succeeded in obtaining a 

 congregation of some 40 or 50 hard woody cocoons on a large plant 

 of mistletoe, and was fortunate to breed out a good harvest 

 of this moth. One specimen, Mr. Edwards informs me, found its 



