60 ANNALS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
blackish ; the whole central area broadly white, traversed by some 
blackish veins ; cilia blackish. Underside similar. 
Type in Coll. Lyell. 
]N\Q. Cape York ; one specimen in February (JSlgner). 
IDALIMA ^THRIAS. 
Argyrolepidia cethrias, Turn., Tr. R.S.S.A. 1908, p. 55. 
Idalima cyanobasis, Hnips., Cat. Lep. Phal. ix, p. 460 (1910), 
These two genera are closely allied. 
N.A, Port Essington, Port Darwin. N.Q. Cape York, Mount 
Garnet. 
Subfam. AGEOTIN^E. 
CHLORIDEA ARESCA n. sp. 
[apeo-Kos, pleasing.] 
(J. 30-34 mm. Head ochreous-grey. Palpi whitish-ochreous 
irrorated with rosy-purple. Antennse ochreous-grey, towards base 
rosy-purple; ciliations in $ Thorax ochreous-grey; beneath rosy- 
purple. Abdomen ochreous-grey; beneath irrorated with rosy-purple. 
Legs whitish-ochreous irrorated with rosy-purple ; anterior and middle 
tarsi mixed with fuscous also. Porewings elongate-triangular, costa 
straight, apex round-pointed, termen scarcely oblique, slightly rounded 
beneath; ochreous-grey ; some purplish irroration along costa; a dark- 
fuscous dot on fold at i; traces of a reddish dentate line at i; 
orbicular* represented by a reddish-fuscous ring and central dot, these 
may be nearly obsolete ; reniform conspicuous, dark reddish-fuscous ; 
traces of a reddish median transverse line ; postmedian line reddish, 
very slender, acutely dentate, the outer dentations ending in fuscous 
dots; traces of a dotted subterminal line; a terminal series of blackish 
dots ; cilia rosy-purple with a fuscous median line. Hindwings with 
termen slightly sinuate; pale-ochreous ; abroad dark-fuscous terminal 
band narrowing towards apex and tornus, with some rosy-purple 
irroration on termen ; cilia pale-ochreous mixed with rosy-purple, 
apices whitish. Underside pale-ochreous ; a crescentic dark-fuscous 
discal mark on forewing, but none on hindwing; terminal areas 
irrorated with rosy-purple, and containing a large dark-fuscous blotch 
in each wing. 
