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heavy, curved, as long as first four joints, fifth joint twice as long as 

 first. Pronotum broader than long, not narrowed in front. Wings 

 rather long acute; one costal series, cells in region of gradate series 

 are long and narrow. 



Expanse 68 mm., abdomen long 25 mm. 



Mid-Queensland, Australia, (Perkins). 

 Distoleon bistrigatus Ramb. 



(M. striola Walk.) 



Port Darwin 20 April, 28 August: Kuranda, March; Mid- 

 Queensland. 



Chrysoleon n. gen. 



No spurs; legs slender, first tarsal joint as long as second plus 

 third, hardly as long as the fifth; pronotum slender. Fore wings 

 broad, hind wings narrower and longer than fore wings; costals of 

 fore wings frequently forked; three cross-veins before radial sector; 

 anal ends a little beyond origin of first branch of medial sector; a 

 double series of anal cells ; the lower cubitus running obliquely down 

 to the hind margin. In hind wings one cross-vein before radial 

 sector; anal ending beyond origin of first branch of radial sector; 

 lower cubitus running down to margin, upper cubitus uniting with 

 median before tip of wing. 



Chrysoleon punctatum n. sp. 



Head yellow, a faint dark inark each side on vertex; antennae 

 yellowish, darker at tip; pronotum pale, with some scattered brown 

 dots; rest of thorax mostly pale; abdomen pale, a black stripe each 

 side; legs pale, minute brown dots at base of bristles, not distinct on 

 hind tibiae. Wings hyaline, outer apical part of fore wing with small 

 brown clouds at forks of veins, and one under the stigma, also in hind 

 wing, but fewer in the posterior apical part. Venation pale, frequently 

 dotted with brown in fore wings, especially along cubitus. Antenna 

 short, not reaching beyond middle of thorax; pronotum slender, 

 narrowed in front, this and the rest of thorax with long white hairs, 

 abdomen with short white hair; legs with some long white hairs and 

 black bristles. Fore wings broad below stigma, barely acute at tips, 

 cells of wing small and irregular; radial sector seven branched before 

 stigma; costal area broad, the cells narrow. 



Expanse forewings 43 mm., hind wings 47 mm., abdomen 

 long 13 mm. 



From Port Darwin, Australia 20 April (Dodd.) 



Formicaleo dispersus n. sp. 



On the same general plan as F. septus and F. bistrigatus, but no 

 dark stripes in front wings instead of which are about twenty small 

 dark spots in the area of the stripe of F. septus toward the hind 

 margin, and in hind wings is a stripe as in F. septus but its apical 

 part broken up into small spots. The head is yellow, a large black 

 spot on front and upper face; antennae pale on basal part, brown 



