642 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



anteriorly, strongly excised before apex, so that the apex forms a 

 strong acute projecting tooth, hindmargin unevenly dentate, 

 rather deeply excised between veins 4 and 6 ; colour and discal 

 dot as in forewings ; median shade straight, blackish mixed with 

 red, well-marked, preceding discal dot ; second line in £ indicated 

 by two very faint slender waved whitish lines. 



Blackheath (3500 feet), New South "Wales ; in November, four 

 specimens. This striking species appears to be nearly allied to 

 the Indian clelia, Cr., which is presumably congeneric, though I 

 have not been able to examine its structure ; the locality seems an 

 unlikely one for an insect of such affinities. 



21. Idiodes, Gn. 



Face with projecting tuft of scales. Tongue developed. Palpi 

 moderate, subascending, rough-scaled, terminal joint short. 

 Antenna? in £ rather stout, filiform, minutely ciliated. Thorax 

 not crested, densely hairy beneath. Femora hairy beneath ; 

 posterior tibia? in <J strongly dilated, enclosing large tuft. Fore- 

 wings in (J without fovea ; 10 rarely out of 9, always connected 

 or anastomosing with 9, and usually with 11 also. Hindwings 

 normal. 



A genus characteristic of South America, and largely developed 

 there, but not known to me elsewhere, except by the two following 

 species. 



Thorax stout 71. apicata. 



Thorax slender 70. primaria. 



70. Id. primaria, Walk. 



( Acid alia primaria, Walk. 1610.) 



(J. 37-38 mm. Head and thorax pale reddish-ochreous ; thorax 

 slender. Antennal ciliations \. Posterior tibia? moderately 

 dilated. Forewings with apex slightly prominent, hindmargin 

 strongly bowed, somewhat bent on vein 5 ; light brownish-ochreous, 

 sometimes reddish-tinged ; first and second lines fuscous, marked 

 with blackish dots on veins, first rather strongly curved, some- 

 what bent above and below middle, second straight, somewhat 



