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tlOMOSPOKA RHODOSCOPA. 



Oin/cJioflea (V) rhodo-^copn , Low., Tr.R.S.S.A., 1902, p. 

 228. 



flfimospora procnta, Turn., Tr.R.S.S.A., 1904, p. 230. 



IJoniosporu rltodoiicopa^ Low., Tr.R.S.S.A., 1905, p. 178. 



While admitting the correctness of this identification, 1 

 think that in default of any description of structural generic 

 characters I could hardly have been ex^Dccted to recognise the 

 original description. Recognition was not rendered easier by 

 the locality assigned to the species by Mr. Lower, nor by his 

 remark — ''Doubtfully referable to Onychodes, more probably 

 referable to the Bombycina." Before describing a lepidop- 

 teron, one should at least have a clear idea as to what family 

 it should be referred to, even if the genus is uncertain. 



Mr. Lower received this species from Mr. F. P. Dodd, of 

 Townsville, North Queensland ; and my example was received 

 from the same source at a later date.* Why Mr. Lower should 

 have referred so many species received from Mr. Dodd to the 

 locality, 'Derby, Western Australia," is difficult to under- 

 stand. 



Sub-family SELIDOSEMIN^. 



Selidosema viridis, n. sp. 



( Viridis, green.) 



Female, 34 mm. Head and face bright green. Palpi 

 green, inner aspect and terminal joint whitish-ochreous. An- 

 tennae grey, towards base green. Thorax bright green. Abdo- 

 men bright green with two pairs of dark fuscous dots. Legs 

 ochreous-whitish ; anterior pair greenish. Forewings triangu- 

 lar, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, termen bowed, 

 oblique; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 11 anastomosing with 12 and 

 then connected with 8 before 10 : green- whitish thickly beset 

 with small spots and strigulse of bright green more or less con- 

 fluent : posterior 5 of costal edge narrowly whitish, strigulated 

 with fuscous and green ; a blackish dot near mid-base : ano- 

 ther on costa at ?, below which are three in a transverse line 

 on veins : a dot on costa before middle, with another beneath 

 it in disc : an outwardly curved series of blackish dots from 

 § costa to 4 dorsum, and another midway between this and 

 termen, interrupted in middle ; all these dots are more or less 

 edged with ochreous scales : a terminal series of black dots 

 between veins; cilia green, apices whitish. Hindwings with 

 termen rounded, slightly crenulate ; colour and markings as 



* As I did not receive this until the year following Mr. Lower's visit 

 to Brisbane, his statement that he had pointed out to me, Avhen in Bris- 

 bane, that he had given it a ^IS. name, is purely imagiiiar}-. 



