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Idiochroa demissa, n. sp. 

 demissus, modest. 



cf , 21-22 mm. Head green; face and palpi pale fuscous. 

 Antennae whitish; pectinations in male 10, apical \ simple. 

 Thorax green. Abdomen whitish with a broad, dull-reddish, 

 median, dorsal streak; beneath pale fuscous. Legs whitish- 

 ochreous; anterior pair pale fuscous. Forewings triangular, 

 costa gently arched, apex acute, termen slightly bowed, 

 oblique; 11 connected with 12 by a long bar; rather dark 

 green; costal edge pale ochreous as far as middle; a fuscous 

 dot on end of cell at about f ; cilia green. Hindwings with 

 termen rounded; dull reddish; dorsum narrowly green; a 

 darker reddish dot on end of cell; cilia whitish, slightly 

 reddish tinged. Underside more or less suffused with dull 

 reddish. 



$ , 22 mm. Antennal pectinations 8. Face green. 

 Hindwings pale green. Underside green. Differs from male 

 in total absence of reddish colouring. 



Queensland: Rosewood, in September; Toowoomba, in 

 December (W. B. Barnard); six specimens. 



Idiochroa celidota, n. sp. 



KT/XtSwros, blotched. 



S , 22 mm.; 9> 29 mm. Head white, posterior edge 

 green; face dark reddish. Palpi very short (about J); red- 

 dish. Antennae ochreous-whitish ; pectinations in male 12, 

 in female 6, extreme apex simple. Thorax green. Abdomen 

 whitish tinged with reddish; dorsum of first two segments 

 green; sometimes a suffused, fuscous, median, dorsal streak 

 containing several white dots; under-surface ochreous-whitish. 

 Legs whitish-ochreous ; anterior pair reddish. Forewings tri- 

 angular, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen 

 nearly straight, slightly oblique; 11 anastomosing with 12; 

 green (inclining to bluish-green); costal edge pale ochreous; 

 a large tornal blotch outlined with purple fuscous, whitish 

 containing a pale-reddish streak along anterior border, and 

 a broader pale-reddish central partition, in which are some 

 purple-fuscous scales ; cilia ' grey. Hindwings with termen 

 rather irregularly rounded, tornus rather prominent; colour 

 and cilia as forewings, but without markings. Underside 

 whitish-green ; forewings ochreous tinged with a pale-grey 

 tornal blotch. 



Queensland : Gayndah, female type received from Dr 

 Hamilton Kenny; Rosewood, a wasted male, in April, 



