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with purple- whitish scales, especially towards hind margin ; a 

 broad, somewhat curved, white subcostal streak, sprinkled with 

 purple scales, rising from costa a little above base, and ending on 

 costa again a little before apex, enclosing a short narrow black 

 costal space ; apical extremity of subcostal streak margined 

 posteriorly by a short broad oblique blackish band from apex of 

 wing ; first line hardly visible, purple fuscous, about J, angulated 

 in middle ; second line very indistinct, straight, double, dark 

 purple-fuscous enclosing a paler central space, from extremity of 

 subcostal streak to anal angle ; a row of cloudy blackish spots on 

 hind margin, generally very indistinct ; cilia fuscous-grey, with 

 purple-whitish points. Hindwings subhyaline, pale grey, darker 

 at apex ; hind marginal line dark fuscous-grey ; cilia whitish- 

 grey, darker at apex, with a dark-grey parting-line near base. 

 Two c^'s from Blackheath on the Blue Mountains, in March. 



My el. cosmiella n. sp. 



9". Head and palpi blackish irrorated with whitish, palpi 

 whitish at base and internally. Antennas dark fuscous with 

 indistinct whitish rings. Thorax blackish-fuscous. Abdomen 

 dull ochreous, suffused with fuscous at base of segments. Legs 

 blackish, densely irrorated with whitish, tibiae with a black band 

 before middle, tarsal joints with whitish apical rings. Fore wings 

 elongate, rather narrow, slightly dilated, hind margin rounded ; 

 blackish, very densely irrorated with whitish, except on each 

 side of first line, where the black colour predominates for some 

 breadth ; first line represented by a rather broad white slightly 

 curved transverse band, sprinkled with blackish scales, and with 

 an indistinct central blackish streak in lower half ; second line 

 indistinct, double, black, rising from costa before apex, immedi- 

 ately making a strong angulation inwards, thence returning and 

 continued to inner margin before anal angle ; between first and 

 second lines an indistinct double black spot above middle of disc : 

 cilia grey, with many bluish-whitish points. Hindwings thinly 

 scaled, whitish-grey, very narrowly darker grey at apex and along 

 hind margin : cilia whitish, with a dark grey parting-line near 

 base. 



One S from Melbourne. 



