EADINOCEliA. — IDALIMA. 459 



a patch on middle of inner margin with a spot beyond it; a post- 

 medial band with very irregular edges from costa to below vein 2, 

 with a series of points beyond it, a subterminal series of points, the 

 point on vein 5 displaced inwards, spots near apex and tornus. 

 Hind wing with the basal half white, the terminal half blackish 

 with crenulate inner edge ; cilia of both wings chequered black and 

 white. 



Hah. New Guinea, Port Moresby, 2 5 ; Dammee I (Kiihn), 

 type f J Tcuhni in Coll. Rothschild; jS t . Australia (J. R. Elsey), 

 1 $ type. Exp. 44-54 millim. 



Genus IDALIMA. 



Type. 



Idalima, Turner, Tr. E. Soc. S. Austr. xxvii. p. 2 (1903) affinis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate, porrect ; 

 frons with truncate conical process with raised edges and corueous plate below 

 it ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair 

 and scales mixed and without crests ; tibia? moderately fringed with hair ; 

 abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with ante- and postmedial blue lines leonora. 



B. Fore wing without ante- and postmedial blue lines. 



a. Hind wing with the basal half suffused with greenish 



yellow except towards costa ., cyanobasis. 



b. Hind wing with the basal half not suffused with 



greenish yellow. 

 a 1 . Hind wing with white band beyond the cell between 



vein (> and submedian fold hemiphragma. 



b 1 . Hind whig with two yellowish-white sometimes 



conj oined spots beyond the cell me fast icta. 



c l . Hind wing without band or spots beyond the cell ... affinis. 



4940. Idalima leonora. 



Agarista leonora, Doubl. Stokes Discov. Austr. i. p. 518, pi. 3. f. 4 (1S46) ; 

 Pmtl. 111. Het. B. M. i. p. 8, pi. 4. f. 6 ; Kirby, Oat. Lep. Het. p. 23. 



Black tinged with purple ; palpi banded with pale yellow ; sides 

 of frons, basal joint of antennae, spots on vertex of head, guise, 

 and edges of tegulae and patagia yellow ; the hair on coxae and 

 femora orange ; tibiae and tarsi with white points ; abdomen with 

 segmental white lines on ventral surface and sometimes on upper- 

 side, the terminal segment orange. Fore wing with blue spot at 

 base ; an oblique streak from base of inner margin to the oblique 

 antemedial line ; a whitish bar across end of cell with short 

 blue streak above it and spot below it ; an oblique series of three 

 whitish spots beyond the cell, two further from base above veins 

 3 and 4 and a more elongate spot above vein 2 ; a postmedial 



