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NEW SPECIES OF QUEENSLAND LEPIDOPTERA. 



By Thomas P. Lucas, L.R.C.P., Ed., L.S.A., Lond., M.R.C.S., 



Eng. 



Family COSSID^. 

 CULAMA EX PRESS A, 11. Sp. 



(J9. 25-40 mm. Head grey, freely mottled with black and 

 fuscous, in 9 a tuft on crown more decided reddish colour. Palpi 

 short, porrected, fuscous, lighter on terminal joint. Antennae in 

 (J pectinate, pectinations narrow towards apex and base, in 9 

 simple. Thorax grey, freely mottled with black and fuscous, in 

 9 decidedly reddish tint. Abdomen very hair}^, grey, in g 

 deeply mottled with black and fuscous, in 9 sparsely with black, 

 but freely with fuscous and reddish. Forewings costa slightl}' 

 wavy, hindmargin rounded, grey, diffused with darker gre}^ fus- 

 cous, and slaty scales; and marked with lines and short bars of 

 velvety black. Forewings with costal edge whitish, crossed with 

 bars of black, about twelve in number, extending across the wing 

 as wavy denticulate lines, irregular in contour, and at places 

 faint, at others deep black and diffused; in outer third of wing 

 there are short black cross bars which join the transverse lines 

 and form an irregular network, more or less clearly defined: cilia 

 grey, with a dark basal line. Hindwings deep grey to black; cilia 

 dark grey, with lighter basal and median lines. 



Allied to C. cnhginosa, Walk., a common southern species, but 

 rather rare in Brisbane. It is scarcely half the size, and is more 

 strongly barred with transverse lines. 



