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THE GENUS lODIS, 
clot J costa to inner margin, where it is lost in a conspicuous 
ferruginous dot ; second from i costa to 4 inner margin ; a deep 
ferruginous band continuous with costa on hindmargin, spots on 
veins bright golden-ochreous. Cilia ferruginous, tips grey. Hind- 
wings broad, hindmargin rounded. Colour of hindmarginal band 
and strigulie as in forewings ; second line finely pencilled, reddish- 
ochreous, sinuous, dentate, 4 costa to 4 inner margin, pointing 
deeply inwards in middle third ; cilia as in forewing, on inner 
margin green, apices grey. 
Brisbane. November, 1887. 
A very handsome species, easily distinguished by the ferruginous 
border of the wings and the numerous ochreous-red strigulaj. 
Caterpillar allied to the curious fiat larvae, with oblique side 
projections, of insperata and pieroides. Feeds on dwarf scrubby 
Eucalyptus. 
lODIS MARGINATA, ll.Sp. 
21 mm. — Head reddish-ochreous, fillet ochreous. Palpi whitish, 
terminal joint long. Antennce red, underside ochreous. Thorax 
light blue-gi'een, dorsal line posteriorly and lateral lines red. Ab- 
domen light blue-green, dorsal line blackish-red, finely annulated 
with creamy-white. Forewings with costa nearly straight, hind- 
mai’gin rather obliquely rounded ; light blue-green, almost a 
milky-blue. Costal band deep red, finely edged with ochreous ; 
hindmarginal line a series of reddish-black lunul es connected Ijy 
points, and bordered by a pencilling of lighter red ; sub-marginal 
line white, finely sinuous. Cilia reddish, terminal half lighter. 
Hindwings as forewings, hindmargin strongly rounded, angled 
and bent at vein 4 ; sub-marginal, max’ginal lines and cilia as in 
forewings. 
Brisbane. One specimen ; February, 1888. 
I think this species haixlly belongs to the genus lodia, but as 
IMeyrick has grouped so many genera together under this name, I 
have placed it here for the present. Though not large the insect 
is most conspicuous with its deep x’ed wavy wing border, and by 
the uniform colour of milky-blue, devoid of marking. 
