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CATALOGUE OF 
first, second and third inferior veins near together at the base ; 
fourth not far from the third. 
This genus seems to be fully as nearly allied to Cryptophasia , 
and through it to the Micro- Lepidoptera , as to the Cossidce , and 
therefore is only placed provisionally in the latter family. 
1. Cossodes Lyonetii. 
Foem. Cyaneus ; thorax plagis duabus lateralibus albis , postice 
viride ; abdomen viride , maculis quatuor albis dorsalibus 
transversis posticis ; alee anticce f asciis quatuor incompletis 
albis , posticce purpurece, apud marginem interiorem cyanece. 
Cossodes Lyonetii, White , Append . Capt. Grey’s Journ. Exped. 
Discov. Austral, ii. 477. Fig. Entomologist , 350, 42. 
Turorna Lyonetii, Boisd. Herr.-Schceff. Lep. Exot . Sp. Ser. 1, 
f. 149. 
Female. Blue. Thorax with a very large white spot on each 
side ; hind part green. Abdomen green, with four white transverse 
dorsal spots on the apical half. Fore wings with four white bands; 
the first, second and third broad, abbreviated and interrupted ; the 
fourth slender, apical and macular. Hind wings purple, blue along 
the interior border. 
New Holland. 
a. King George’s Sound, Australia. Presented by His Excellency 
Sir George Grey. 
Genus 5. GIVIRA. 
Mas . Corpus sat validum. Proboscis obsoleta. Palpi bre- 
vissimi ; articulus 3us minimus. Antennae mediocriter pectinatae, 
thorace breviores. Abdomen alas posticas plus dimidio superans. 
Pedes validi, pilosi ; tarsorum articuli dense fasciculati; tibiae pos- 
ticae calcaribus quatuor parvis. Alae breviusculae, sat anguslae ; 
anticae apud costam rectae, apice rotundatae, margine exteriore me- 
diocriter obliquo. 
Male. Body moderately stout. Proboscis obsolete. Palpi 
very short, not extending near so far as the head ; third joint very 
small. Antennae moderately pectinated, shorter than the thorax. 
Abdomen extending for more than half its length beyond the hind 
wings. Legs stout, pilose; joints of the tarsi thickly tufted; hind 
tibiae with four rather small spurs. Wings rather short and narrow. 
Fore wings straight in front, rounded at the tips, moderately oblique 
