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commencing in a blotch beneath | costa, constricted beneath 

 this, and again above | dorsum; cilia grey, Hindwings with 

 termen wavy, produced to an acute angle on vein 4; as fore- 

 wings but with basal and antemedian fasciae; poetmedian 

 fascia expanded towards dorsum; a fuscous-brown marginal 

 dot above terminal projection, and a larger marginal spot 

 bisected by a whitish line beneath projection; cilia whitish, 

 on projection fuscous, towards tomus with a fuscous basal 

 line. Underside green-whitish with indications of postmedian 

 fasciae. 



Northern Queensland : Evelyn Scrub, near Herberton, 

 in December and February; two specimens received from Mr. 

 F. P. Dodd- 



Helicopage cinerea, Warr. (Agathia). 

 Helicopage cinerea, Prout. 



9 , 40 mm. Head bright green ; lower half of face and 

 fillet grey. Palpi 2^, terminal joint |; grey, basal half of 

 under-surface whitish. Antennae grey. Thorax bright green 

 with median and postmedian central grey spots. Abdomen 

 pale grey with a dorsal series of large green spots; beneath 

 whitish. Legs whitish ; anterior pair fuscous anteriorly. Fore- 

 wings triangular, costa moderately arched, apex acute, termen 

 strongly bowed, oblique; bright green with broadly suffused 

 grey markings and strigulae; costal edge pale grey with 

 darker strigulae; a rather large basal patch containing a 

 fuscous subcostal spot and several green spots, towards dorsum 

 this is darker, with a very oblique inwardly directed edge; 

 succeeding this is a narrow irregular fascia connected with 

 a transverse median bar, which runs into postmedian 

 fascia; a very broad fascia with darker strigulae, its edges 

 very irregular, extending on costa from f to apex, on dorsum 

 from f to tornus and adjacent part of termen, this forms an 

 acute apical process, and contains a transverse sinuous line 

 of fuscous dots at I ; a grey terminal line, cilia grey. Hind- 

 wings with termen angled on vein 6, and more acutely so 

 on vein 4 ; as f orewings but with a small basal fascia only ; 

 postmedian fascia expanded into a large tornal blotch ex- 

 tending from mid-dorsum to acute angle on termen, contain- 

 ing a transverse series of fuscous dots and a dark wavy line 

 from apex to tornus. Underside whitish; costa of forewings 

 with large fuscous strigulae and a subapical blotch, from 

 which arises a narrow transverse fascia; hindwings with a 

 fuscous subterminal fascia thickest in middle. 



Unfortunately the male is unknown. In Helicopage the 

 male antennae are pectinate, and the male frenulum abnorm- 

 ally specialized. 



