PAPERS READ. 
CONTRIBUTION TO A KNOAVLEDGE OF THE 
GENUS lODIS. 
By Thomas P. Lucas, AI.R.C.S.E., L.S.A., L.R.C.P Ed., &c. 
Through the published descriptions of Lepidoptera by Mr. 
IMeyrick, collectors in Austi’alia are beginning to have the advan- 
tage of such a basis as is compatible with new work. Hitherto 
the paucity of books of reference — the scattered fragmenta of 
records — and the difficulty of recognising the too brief descriptions 
of described species, have prevented collectors from doing further 
work. We gladly hail the papers by Mr. Meyrick, and can only 
express the wish that such contributions will be rapidly multiplied. 
Of the genus lodu, Mr. Meyrick computes that there are 200 
.species. Of these he describes or tabulates 41 in Vol. II. (2nd 
series) of the Proceedings of this Society. To that list I am now 
able to add nine species. In addition, I have in this paper given 
additional localities for sixteen of his tabulated species from 
specimens in my own collection. 
loDis glaucosa, n.sp. 
9 . 20 mm. — Face and head dark green, fillet greenish-ochreous. 
Palpi light brown, very short. Antennai brown. Thorax dark 
glaucous-green. Abdomen dark green, posteriorly and laterally 
lightish-ochreous. Legs ochreous. Forewings with costa rounded, 
apex angular ; hind margin sinuous, oblique, rounded, apical 
third sub-convex ; dark glaucous-green, sparingly darkened by 
indistinct straggling strigulai ; costa brown, densely hairy on free 
margin j discoidal s))Ot small but conspicuous, black ; cilia light 
grey, tending to orange at base. Hind wings as forewings ; hind 
margin strongly bent and diawn to angle at vein 4. 
Brisbane. One specimen ; October, 1887. 
In general relationship comes near I. centrophijlla, Me^■r 
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