590 RKVISIOX OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, V., 



This seems to agree sufficiently with descriptions drawn from 

 Indian examples, which are, however, rather larger. On a 

 casual inspection it might be confused with G. albicosta Wlk. 



N.A.: Port Darwin; in December; one specimen, received 

 from Mr. F. P. Dodd. Also from Borneo and India. 



Gen. 14. Comib^na, 



Comibcena Hb., Verz, p. 284; Comostolodes Warr., Nov. Zool. 

 1896, p.308; Prololosceles Warr., Nov. Zool. 1896, p.368. 



Face smooth. Tongue well-developed. Palpi moderate or 

 rather long; second joint roughly scaled; terminal joint in ^ 

 short, ill 5 moderately elongate. Antennas in ^ pectinated, 

 apices simple, in 9 simple. Thorax not crested; slightly hairy 

 beneath. Abdomen sometimes with faint indications of dorsal 

 crests. Posterior tibite with all spurs present; in ^ with a long 

 slender tei'minal process about half as long as tarsus. Hind- 

 wings with a strong rounded costal expansion at base; frenulum 

 in (J present but very slender, retinaculum close to base of 

 forewing; frenulum in 9 represented by a few weak hairs. 

 Forewings with 3 and 4 connate or stalked, 6 separate or 

 stalked, 11 from cell or stalked with 7, 8, 9, 10 beyond 6, free 

 or running into 12. Hindwings Avith 3 and 4 stalked, 6 and 7 

 stalked, 8 closely approximated to cell near base, diverging 

 before middle; discocellulars not angled on vein 5, only 

 moderately oblique. 



Although, as will be noted below, there are substantial 

 diflFei-ences between the neuration of the forewings of the two 

 Australian species, yet, in view of the variability of the same 

 points in the genus Comostola, I do not think they can be relied 

 on for generic separation. The genus is best charactei'ised by 

 the posterior tibial process, which is an exaggeration of a 

 structure found to a slighter extent in some other genera; but 

 in the latter (except in Eiocyclodes callislicta) never attaining 

 half the length of the tarsus. Type G pustulata Hufn., from 

 Europe. 



