84 LEPIDOPTEROLOGICAI, GLEANINGS. 



N.Q. Kuranda near Cairns in November. Q. Coolan- 

 gatta in December ; Rosewood in November. Five 

 specimens. 



PERSICOPTILA (ENOSCELES, W. Sp. 



olvoaxehiQ, with wine-coloured legs. 



(J 9 12-13 mm. Head, palpi and antennae whitish. 

 Thorax white. Abdomen in 9 ochreous-whitish ; in $ 

 whitish, towards apex fu.scous. Legs whitish ; tibiae and 

 tarsi with pale-fuscous annulations ; crests on posterior 

 libiae pale-crimsom tipped and irrorated with dark 

 fuscous ; a similar but smaller crest on apex of middle 

 tibiae Forewings whitish with slight pale-crimson suffusion 

 at apex and near dorsum ; markings ill-defined, brownish 

 mixed with dark-fuscous ; a basal and a sub-basal suffusion 

 mostly dark-fuscous ; a transverse fascia before middle, 

 brownish, succeeded by a dark-fuscous dorsal .spot ; a 

 "terminal suffusion, brownish towards costa, dark-fuscous 

 iiowards termen : cilia pinkish-white, apices dark-fuscous, 

 on dorsum whitish. Hind wings and cilia gre5'-whiti.sh. 



N.Q. Kuranda near Cairns. Q. Mount Tambourine 

 in November ; Toowoomba in November. Three .specimens. 



Subfam. Heliodininae. 



IDIOGLOSSA METALLOCHRYSA, H. sp. 



fxeraXXoxQvaog, golden-metallic. 



9 9-10 mm. Head, palpi, and antennae whitish. 

 'Thorax and abdomen ochreous-whitish. Legs whitish. 

 Forewings ochreous-whitish ; a suffused fuscous spot 

 beneath ^ costa, with an ochreous suffusion between 

 it and dorsum ; a fuscous line containing some golden- 

 metallic scale from | costa to termen beneath middle, 

 disc on both sides of this line suffused with ochreous ; cilia 

 ochreous, on dorsum grey. Hindwings ochreous with four 

 transverse golden- metallic fasciae, at ?,, i, j, and |, the last 

 fascia broader and edged posteriorly with fu.scous ; cilia 

 grey- whitish. 



N.Q. Kuranda near Cairns in October. Q. Mount 

 Tambourine in November. Three specimens of which one 

 is in Coll. Meyrick. 



