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frons white with rufous bars above aud between antennae which are 

 rufous ; tegulae 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. 

 Pore wing whitish tinged Avith 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 



lig. 1. — Cosmodes eleffcins, J. }. 



beyond the cell between veins 7 and 3 and 2 and 1, an oblique palo 

 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 

 outwards at vein 6 then oblique to vein 3 and between veins 2 

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

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

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

 between veins 6 and 4; a terminal series of dark stria3 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 Avith rufous 

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

 tinge. 



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

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

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

 o-reyish, the postmedial Avhite line obsolete except betAveen veins 7 

 and 4 and Avith some tiery red beyond it, the subterminal line 

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



Bab. Queensland, Brisbane (Turner, Lucas), 1 cJ , 2 § , Moreton 

 Bay (Diggles), 2 c? ; E". S. Wales, Sydney {DoiMeday, Lambert, 

 Daniel, liaynor, De la Garde, Riefmann), Id, 9 § ; Victoria, 

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

 Oxley), 4 9 , Cbristchurch, Governors Bay, Napier, Okan. Ex]). 

 32-36 millim. 



