dob REVISION OP AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA^ 



Qland: Brisbane; N.S.W. : Newcastle, Sydney; Vict.: Melbourne, Dronin, 



Gisborne; Tas. : ; W. Aust. : Perth. 



Gen. 2. C o s c i n o c e r a. 



Goscinocera, Butl., Proe. Zool. Soc, 1879, p. 163. 



Frons convex, hairy. Palpi minute. Tibiae without spurs; tarsi hairy, 

 dilated at apex. Porewings with a discal hyaline patch; disco-cellulars absent, 

 leaving cell open; 7 and 9 stalked, 11 arising separately. Hindwings with discal 

 hyaline patch; disco-cellulars absent; tornal area produced forming in $ a short, 

 broad, quadrate process, in d' a long narrow process dilated at apex, in length 

 equal to rest of wing; in both sexes this process contains the anal vein, and 

 veins 2 and 3. 



Differs from Attmcus only in the conformation of the hindwings. 

 7. Goscinocera hercules. 



Attacus hercules, Miskin, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1876, p. 7. — Goscinocera omphale, 

 Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1879, p. 164. 



c?. 105 mm. Head brown, with white spots in front of antennae. Thorax 

 brown; on posterior margin mostly white. Abdomen brown with white trans- 

 verse lines at base and before apex, and longitudinal lateral white lines. Leg's 

 brown; coxae and femora partly white. Forewings triangular, eosta straight to 

 two-thirds, thence strongly arched, apes rounded, slightly produced, termen 

 strongly sinuate, oblique, wavy; brown, towards base and costa irrorated with 

 white; an outwardly oblique white line from dorsum near base to middle of disc; 

 a triangular discal hyaline patch, its basal side convex, its apical acutely pointed, 

 surrounded by ochreous-brown, which is edged with blackish, and preceded at 

 some distance by. a white lunule; a line from two-thirds costa to three-fourths 

 dorsum, slightly bent inwards on costa, slightly incurved in disc, whitish, some- 

 times interrupted, anteriorly edged with fuscous; a band of white irroration 

 succeeds this; a large subapical blotch partly rosy, partly white, and on eosta 

 partly fuscous; cilia brown. Hindwings with termen straight, strongly oblique, 

 wavy, tornus immensely produced in a long, rather slender, apically dilated pro- 

 cess, colour as forewings; a wavy transverse line at one-fourth, white edged pos- 

 teriorly with fuscous; discal hyaline patch as forewings, but sub-triangular with 

 rounded angles; post-median line and band of irroration as forewings, but pro- 

 longed into tornal process; a coai'sely dentate, white, submarginal line in dilated 

 apex of process. 



$. 130 mm. (Some examples are larger). Like d' but rather paler; tornal 

 l^roeess of hindwing very broad, short, quadrate. 



N. Qland: Cairns, Dunk Island. Also from New Guinea and New Ireland. 



Gen. 3. Attacus. 



Attacus, Lin., Syst. Ent., i., pt. 2, p. 808. 



Frons convex, hairy. Palpi minute. 'Tibiae without spurs. Tarsi hairy, 

 dilated at apex. Forewings with a discal hyaline patch; disco-cellulars absent, 

 leaving cell open; 7 and 9 stalked, 11 arising separately. Hindwings with a 

 discal hyaline patch; disco-cellulars absent leaving cell open. 



Type, A. atlas Lin. from India. 



8. Attacus dohertyi. 



Attacus dohertyi, Roths., Nov., Zool., 1895, p. 36. — A. dohertyi wardi, Roths., 

 Nov. Zool., 1910, p. 507. 



