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Genus, CALLIPONA, nov. 
(Callaponos, beautifully wrought.) 
Face smooth, with a small, projecting tuft of hairs at lower 
extremity. Tongue well developed. Palpi porrect, rather 
long (22); second joint covered with densely appressed hairs; 
terminal joint about one-fifth second ; down-curved, smooth- 
scaled, tolerably pointed. Antenne in male bipectinated, 
terminal fifth simple. Forewings in male with a small 
fovea; veins 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked. Hindwings with cell very 
short (4). 
Perhaps allied to Venographia, Warr. UR Fee 
404; Hmps., Moths Ind., iii, p. 189). Тһе very short cell of 
hindwings is a noteworthy characteristic. 
CALLIPONA METABOLIS, n. sp. 
( M etabolis, variable.) 
Male, female, 32-38 mm. Head and palpi greenish or red- 
dish. Antenne whitish, sometimes reddish, tinged; in male 
with rather long (6), fuscous dentations. Thorax and abdo- 
men greenish or reddish. Legs fuscous or reddish, with 
white  irroration. Forewings triangular, costa straight, 
gently arched towards base and apex, apex pointed, termen 
strongly bowed, slightly oblique; greenish, greenish-grey, 
reddish-grey, orange-reddish, or purplish-reddish ; lines darker 
and varying with ground colour; a transverse line from one- 
sixth costa to one-sixth dorsum, sometimes scarcely traceable ; 
a slightly curved line from mid-costa to mid-dorsum; a third 
line from three-quarters costa, more strongly outwardly curv- 
ed to three-quarters dorsum, sometimes obsolete; sometimes a 
few generally scattered. fuscous scales: cilia concolorous. 
Hindwings with costa strongly rounded, termen rounded; 
colour as forewings; median and postmedian lines as fore- 
wings; a more or less developed dark fuscous spot or blotch 
or postmedian line near costa. Under side yellowish-green 
or reddish, finely strigulated with fuscous, costal edge of 
forewing white, a triangular subapical white blotch on ter- 
men of forewing, also strigulated. 
Very variable in colour, but otherwise constant, and easily 
recognised. 
Type in Coll., Turner. 
N.Q., Townsville; in July and August. Nine bred speci- 
mens received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 
DEILINIA ACROCOSMA, n. sp. 
( Aerocosmos, with apical ornament.) 
Male, 35 mm. Head fuscous-grey. Palpi pale ochreous. 
Antenne fuscous-grey ; in male with long pectinations (10), 
