BY E. MEYRICK, B.A., F.E.S. 785 



Maryborough, Queensland ; Wollongong, New South Wales ; 

 four specimens (Coll. Macleay and Australian Museum). 



138. Hydr, eschatias, n. sp. 



£. 32 mm. Head black on crown, face orange, collar reddish- 

 orange. Antennae black, apex white. Thorax black. Abdomen 

 orange, base of segments narrowly black. Forewings black ; spots 

 wholly absent. Hindwings black ; first spot very small, orange ; 

 second absent. 



One specimen, of uncertain locality (Coll. Macleay). 



139. Hydr. bicolor, Walk. 



(Euchromia (Hydrusa) bicolor, Walk. Bomb. 255, Butl. 111. 

 Het. I, 19, pi. IX, 1.) 



£ Q. 29-32 mm. Head deep reddish-orange, with a narrow 

 black line between antennae. Antennae black, apex white. 

 Thorax black. Abdomen deep orange, base of segments narrowly 

 black, anal segment wholly black. Forewings and hindwings 

 black ; spots wholly absent. 



Cairns, Queensland ; six specimens (Coll. Macleay). 



40. Choromeles, n.g. 



Tongue well-developed. Antennae in £ shortly bipectinated. 

 Palpi short, porrected, loosely scaled. Spurs very short. Fore- 

 wings with vein 2 from about |, 4 and 5 approximated at base, 

 7 out of 8 below 10, 9, 10, and 11 out of 8. Hindwings with 

 vein 4 absent, 3 and 5 remote at base, 6 absent. 



This genus has been previously characterised by Butler under 

 the name of Trianeura, a bad orthographical blunder for Trineura, 

 which name is untenable, having been previously employed for a 

 genus of Diptera ; I therefore alter it. 



140. Chor. geographica, n. sp. 

 (J. 21-26 mm. Head orange, sometimes with a fine dark 

 fuscous line between antennae. Antennae black. Thorax blackish, 

 with moderately large anterior and posterior orange spots. Abdo- 

 men orange, base of segments blackish, basal segment wholly 



