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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 ^, 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 (J's from Blackheath on the Blue Mountains, in March. 

 t~s<n^^ j^. 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, tibiaa with a black band 

 before middle, tarsal joints with whitish apical rings. Forewings 

 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 ^ from Melbourne. 



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