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Cosina maclachlani (pl. 3, fig. 6). Weele, Notes Leyden 

 Museum, vol. 14, p. 210, 1904. — Of this species four speci- 

 mens, 2 J^J" and 2 $$, were present from Kimberley district, 

 N. W. Australia. One of the male specimens was a very 

 small one; its forewing measured 38 mm, its hindwing 34 mm. 

 The forewing of a rather large female measured 48 mm; the 

 hindwing 43 mm. 



Cosina maculata n. sp. (pl. 3, fig. 4). — Face and palpi 

 yellowish. Vertex brownish black, with a påle indistinct 

 transverse streak above the antennae, and with a paler hind 

 margin; it is raised, and with a longitudinal rather broad 

 median furrow. Antennae short, brownish black, narrowly 







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Fig. 8. Wings of Cosina annulata. 



påle brownish annulated at the joinings; the underside almost 

 yellowish brown towards the apex. Prothorax about as long 

 as broad, with rounded front angles, dark brown with two 

 yellowish spöts on the front margin at each side (the small- 

 est close to the front angle) and a yellowish oblique spöt 

 on the disc towards the hind angle. A transverse furrow one 

 third from the front margin; the hind margin raised. Meso- 

 and metathorax brownish black. Abdominal segments black; 

 second to eighth segment with a rather broad yellowish band 

 along their hind margins; these bands are almost interrupted 

 at the pleurae, and they are narrower on the underside than 

 on the dorsum. The male appendages as long as eighth and 

 ninth segments united, blackish and with blackish bristles. 

 Head and abdominal segments with short blackish laying 

 hairs, mingled with whitish. Thorax and first abdominal 

 segment with long erected whitish hairs. Legs blackish; the 

 tibiae with a short transverse yellowish streak on their front 



