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RHANIDOPSLS; CHLOROCOMA. By L. B. Prout. 
ncophan- 
ics. 
rhodothrix. 
cadmaria. 
rho doer os¬ 
sa. 
rhodoloma. 
vertumna- 
ria. 
dichloraria. 
ipomop- 
sis. 
carenaria. 
asshnilis. 
commoda. 
monocyma. 
it has otherwise the venation of Diplodesma section D and has — like subexpressa — lost the proximal spurs 
of the hindtibia. 3rd joint of palpus long. 
79. Genus: Itliauiclopsis West. 
“3 unknown. $ palpus long, slender. Antenna lamellate. Pectus slightly hairy. Hindtibia with one 
pair of spurs. Abdomen not crested. Wings thickly scaled. Forewing veins 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 10 from 
9 before 8 (but after 7), 11 free. Hindwing cell short, discocellulars outwardly oblique, veins 3 and 4 from 
angle, 6 and 7 on long stalk, 8 anastomosing with cell near base”. Only the type species known. 
Rh. neophantes West (12 i). Quite unlike any other known Indo-Australian Hemitheine, superficially 
resembling the American Pyrochlora rhanis (Vol. 8, pi. 4 1). 
80. Genus: Chlorocoma Turn. 
A derivative of Prasinecyma, distinguished chiefly by the shorter palpus, with the terminal joint 
minute in both sexes (see Vol. 16, p. 31). It was established entirely for Australian species and these are on 
the whole very homogeneous. Hindwing very rarely angled, 1st median less often stalked than in Prasine¬ 
cyma ; coloration generally bright green, without the white strigulae or irroration of typical Prasinocyma 
Ch. rhodothrix Turn. is unknown to me, but differs from most Chlorocoma in that the q hindtibia is 
not dilated. Deep green, the veins faintly and the termen narrowly crimson, the forewing with a brown 
costal streak, the extreme costal edge white to %, thence crimson, the hindwing with a crimson cell-dot; 
fringes deep crimson. Expanse 26 mm. Tasmania: Cradle Mountain, 3000—3500 feet, 1 <$. 
Ch. cadmaria Guen. (= vulnerata Btlr.) (12 i). A pretty little species, readily recognized by the 
conspicuous crimson cell-spot of the hindwing. Widely distributed in non-tropical Australia, with Tasmania. 
Ch. rhodocrossa Turn. A rather small species (21 mm), $ with long pectinations. Head crimson 
between the antennae snow-white. Wings bright green, without lines, the fringes dark crimson with wiiite 
tips; fore wing with costal streak crimson at base and apex, white underlined with crimson between. Bridge¬ 
town, West Australia, 1 $. 
Ch. rhodoloma Turn. Crown of head crimson, as in the two preceding. Wings bluish green, without 
lines; costal margin of forewing and fringes crimson throughout, the latter above with indistinct dark dots 
opposite the veins, beneath with a strong dark-fuscous basal line. Expanse 24 mm. Founded on a $ from 
W aroona, West Australia. 
Ch. vertumnaria Guen. (= congenita Walk.) (12 i) is perhaps, as Turner believes, merely a form of 
the following, generally larger and with the lines and cell-dots obsolete, but only differing constantly in the 
wholly rosy fringes. Larva on Acacia hakeoides. Not rare in Tasmania, known also from Victoria and 
New South Wales. 
Ch. dichloraria Guen. (= submissaria Walk.) (12 i). Face and a line on crown crimson; thorax poste¬ 
riorly and abdomen with a pale buff dorsal line. Cell-dots dark green, more or less mixed with blackish; 
lines fine, lunulate dentate; fringes light buff, distally suffused with crimson. Larva on Acacia decur- 
r e n s. Tasmania to Queensland. 
Ch. ipomopsis Lower , founded on 5 $$, mostly larger than vertumnaria, is said to be intermediate 
between that species and dichloraria but to differ from both in the green head and face and absence of 
the buff dorsal line; hindwing bent at 3rd radial. Cell-dots, lines and fringes about as in dichloraria. South 
Australia, apparently attached to Acacia p yen ant ha. A 9 Chlorocoma from the Barnard collection, 
unfortunately in poor condition and without locality-label, seems to conform perfectly to the above desrip- 
tion, but the species still awaits further elucidation. 
Ch. carenaria Guen. ( = ochroneuiodes Prout) (12 k) is very distinct in the postmedian line of the fore- 
wing, which is oblique and non-dentate, and in having the veins finely whitish-buff. Victoria and Tasmania. 
Ch. assimilis T. P. Luc. differs from dichloraria (12 i) in its larger size and in the absence of the den¬ 
tate whitish lines. In the name-typical form the wings are altogether without markings. In — ab. commoda 
T. P. Luc. the postmedian line is present, straight. Queensland (loc. typ.) and West Australia. 
Ch. monocyma Meyr. has no red line on the green crown, no longitudinal pale line on the body, the 
wings pale yellowish green, with a faint irregular pale postmedian line from about 3 / 4 costa, on the hindwing 
angulated in the middle, the fringes whitish green, whiter at the tips. Hindwing with termen strongly rounded, 
