142 NEW SPE0IE8 OK QUEENSLAND LEPIDOPTERA. 



EUARESTUS. NOV. GEN, 



Face smooth. Antenn;e in male bipectinated. Palpi moder- 

 ate, slender, adpressed scales, porrected, terminal joint short. 

 Posterior tibife, with all spurs present. Thorax with woolly hairs 

 beneath. Forewings with veins 3 and 4 separate, 7 and 8 

 stalked. Hindwings with veins 3 and 4 from a point, G and 7 

 from a point, 8 from cell at half, 



EUARE8TUS NOBILITANS. NOV, SP, 



^37 iiU'l- Head and face bright to pea green. Palpi 

 moderate, deep red, first joint with long whitish hairs, on under 

 side. Antenn?e bipectinate, stalk deep red, pectinations grey, 

 shortening at either end. Legs reddish fuscous, to ochreous on 

 under surface, spurs long. Thorax bright pea green, white 

 woolly hairs underneath. Abdomen pea green, laterally and in 

 last segments ochreous, with a black spot on centre of dorsum, 

 and hind margin of posterior segments edged with purple rose. 

 Forewings costa rounded, apex acute, hindmargin gently 

 rounded, bright pea green. Costa white grey, finely annulated 

 with ferrous fuscous, and sufiused with cherry red ; four or five 

 spots or blotches of ferrous red on fore part of cell and on veins ; 

 a line of minute black dots on veins along a narrow line of 

 indistinct darker green, from f costa to f inner margin ; a few 

 minute black dots scattered irregularly and sparingly. Cilia 

 green, gradually shading to creamy grey. Hindwings same as 

 forewings, with very indistinct darker green line, and a very few- 

 scattered minute black spots. Cilia as forewings. Under 

 surface of all wings greenish ochreous, suffused with red towards 

 base, and becoming lighter ochreous toward hindmargin ; an 

 irregular broad band of purple, shaded into violet, from middle 

 of wings to I, shaded towards margins, and interrupted in hind- 

 wings in centre by groundcolour to form two diffused blotches. 



One specimen taken in scrub near Brisbane in October. 



EUARESTUS PATROCINATUS. NOV. SP. 



$ 45 111.1)1. Head and face bright green. Palpi with pro- 

 fusion of adpressed hairs on first joint, terminal joint short, 

 creamy pink. Antenuc^ serrate, light fuscous, with creamy 

 annulations, white underneath. Legs ochreous, spurs long. 

 Thorax bright pea green, white woolly hairs underneath. 

 Abdomen bright pea green, becoming ochreous laterally and 

 over under surface ; a conspicuous arched violet red blotch on 



