LEPIDOPTERA HETEROOERA. 1611 



Female. Bright green, very pale sea-green beneath. Body 

 beneath and legs silvery white. Head white between the antennae, 

 fawn-colour in front. Palpi smooth, linear, very slender, extending 

 much beyond the head and as long as its breadth ; third joint as 

 long as the second. Antennae white. Abdomen much shorter than 

 the interior border of the hind wings. Legs smooth, slender ; fore 

 femora and fore tibiae brown above. Wings broad, with a red white- 

 bordered dot in the disk and with a postmedial line of white red- 

 marked points ; a yellow marginal line with transversely elongated 

 black points; fringe silvery white. Fore wings acute; two red 

 white- bordered dots on the interior border ; the second forming part 

 of the postmedial line ; exterior border straight, very slightly oblique. 

 Hind wings with a red white-bordered dot on the interior border; 

 exterior border hardly bent in the middle. Length of the body 

 3 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



a. Swan River. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



b. Moreton Bay. From Mr. Dig^les' collection. 



Genus COMIB^ENA, C. L. H. xxii. 568. 



COMIB/ENA INVASATA. 



Mas. Alba ; palpi porrecli, lineares, gracillimi ; antenna late 

 pectinatce ; alee vitta latissima undulata informi saturate 

 viridi strigam albam transversam a/barn includente ; postica 

 bis triente vi rides, fascia exteriore pallide cervina, linea mar- 

 ginali fusca, 



Male. White. Palpi porrect, smooth, very slender, extending 

 a little beyond the head ; third joint linear, nearly half the length 

 of the second. Antennae broadly pectinated. Abdomen very much 

 shorter than the interior border of the hind wings ; apical tuft very 

 small. Legs smooth, slender. Wings broad. Fore wings acute, 

 with a very broad irregular deep green stripe, which is undulating 

 along its hind side and occupies much more than half the length of 

 the interior border from the base, and extends thence in the disk 

 nearly to the tip, and contains in front a broad transverse white 

 streak ; exterior border slightly convex, moderately oblique. Hind 

 wings deep green on more than half the surface from the base, this 

 hue occupying nearly the whole length of the interior border ; an 

 exterior pale lawn-coloured band and a brown marginal line. Length 

 of the body 4£ lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



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