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irons white with rufous bars above and between antenna? which are 

 rufous ; teguhe with two slight dark lines at middle ; patagia with 

 oblique white bands ; metathorax with whitish patch, some blackish 

 scales at tips of patagia and metathorax ; pectus and legs whitish 

 tinged with rufous; abdomen white with the dorsal crests rufous. 

 Fore wing whitish tinged with rufous and irrorated with a few 

 black scales, the terminal area suffused with deep rufous and 

 brown except towards costa ; a very pale yellow-green fascia 

 from subcostal nervure near base curving down to below vein 1, 

 then upwards to median nervure at middle where it is con- 

 fluent with a wedge-shaped mark in cell, these markings defined 

 by silvery white lines ; two similarly coloured conical patches 



fig. 1. — Cosmodcs elegans, <$ . \. 



beyond the cell between veins 7 and 3 and 2 and l,an oblique pale 

 rufous fascia between veins 3 and 2 which are streaked with 

 white, the area beyond the conical patches deep rufous to the 

 silvery white postmedial line, which arises below costa, is angled 

 oid/wards at vein 6 then oblique to vein 3 and between veins 2 

 and 1 ; a series of dark subterminal striae excurved from costa to 

 vein 6, then defined on inner side by silvery white stria? angled out- 

 wards at vein 3 and ending at vein 2, with deep rufous before them 

 between veins 6 and 4 ; a terminal series of dark stria? with 

 whitish before them above and below- vein 3 ; cilia brown with a 

 dark line through them, whitish at apex and below vein 3. Hind 

 wing yellowish white, the terminal area broadly tinged with rufous 

 from apex to vein 2 ; the underside white with a faint rufous 

 tinge. 



2 . Head and tegulae deep rufous ; thorax pale rufous ; fore 

 wing deep rufous, the costa dark with white points towards apex ; 

 the interspace between veins 3 and 2 pale rufous at base, then 

 greyish, the postmedial white line obsolete except between veins 7 

 and 4 and with some fiery red beyond it, the subterminal line 

 obsolete; hind wing with the terminal half blood-red. 



Bab. Queensland, Brisbane (Turner, Lucas), 1 rf , 2 $ , Moreton 

 Bay (Biggies), 2 rf ; N. S. Wales, Sydney (Boubledag, Lambert, 

 Daniel, liaynor, Be la Garde, Rietmann), 1 S , 9 $ ; Victoria, 

 Gisborne (Lyell), 1 $; New Zealand, Auckland (Colenso, Bolton, 

 Oxhy), 4 9, Cbristchurch, Governors Bay, Napier, Okan. Exp. 

 32 36 millim. 



