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and not crennlate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from below upper 

 angle; 7 from angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 

 4 from augle of cell ; 5 almost fully developed from just below middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



A. Pore wing strongly suffused with olive-green prasinoscia. 



B. Fore wing suffused with pale olive-brown ochrochlora. 



5021. Trissernis prasinoscia. 



Trissernis prasinoscia, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1902 (Apr.), p. 37. 

 Bryomimx elmj.lcs, Turner, Proc. Linn Soc. N. S. W. xwii n 134 (Aug 

 1902). *' 



Head, and thorax white, tinged with olive-green ; palpi and frons 

 brownish; antennae brown except towards base; abdomen white 

 and olive-green at base, then suffused with brown and with fulvous 

 band on 3rd segment ; fore legs blackish in front ; pectus, mid 

 and hind legs,. and ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Fore win°- 

 white suffused with olive-green and irrorated with a few black 

 scales ; the costa with series of short black streaks ; a diffused 

 blackish subbasal band from below costa to inner margin ; ante- 

 medial line slight, blackish, inwardly oblique ; a rather wedge-shaped 

 black oliscoidal spot with sinuous brown line from it to inner margin ; 

 a black medial line excurved round the discoidal spot, then puncti- 

 forrn ; an indistinct blackish postmedial line, excurved below costa, 

 then oblique ; subterminal line indistinct, grey defined on each side by 



Fig. 11.— Trissernis prasinoscia, rf . \. 



brownish suffusion, angled outwards below costa where there is 

 some blackish before it, angled inwards at diseal fold and excurved 

 at middle, some blackish before it towards inner margin ; a terminal 

 series of blackish points ; cilia tinged with rufous and chequered with 

 brown. Hind wing white suffused with olive-green and irrorated with 

 a few large black scales; a blackish discoidal spot with sinuous line 

 from it to inner margin ; a sinuous blackish postmedial line from below 

 costa to inner margin ; an indistinct diffused sinuous subterminal 

 line defined on each side by fuscous suffusion ; a terminal series of 

 blackish striae ; cilia whitish chequered with brown ; the underside 

 whitish tinged with brown, the terminal area suffused with fuscous, 

 an indistinct dark discoidal spot. 



Hub. Queensland, Kuranda (Dodd), 1 $ > Brisbane (Turner), 

 2 J. Exp. 16 millim. 



