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COSSODES. By M. Gaede. 
sect a. 
tempestua. 
tigrina. 
columbina. 
interlucens. 
minuti- 
scripta. 
irretita. 
columella- 
ris. 
insulana. 
neuroxan- 
tha.. 
X. secta Trnr. Body greyish-white with black scales. Forewing grey strewn with white and black 
scales. Black striae at the costal margin. A jet-black band from the costal margin near the base along the 
cell to below 3 / 5 of the costal margin, then faded to the apex. The costal margin before it is more purely 
white. The marginal area exhibits inside grey and black striae between the veins; faded white behind them. 
Hindwing dark greyish-brown with a few dark lines between the veins. 52—62 mm. Brisbane. 
X. tempestua Trnr. Body greyish-white with black scales, one black spot on each side of the base of 
the abdomen. Forewing white with blackish-grey striae between the veins. A main band of oval spots on 
1 3 of the length of the wing, fadedly continued at the inner margin to a rhombic spot at % of the inner 
margin, then broadly faded on along the distal margin. Less dense black lines between them and therefore 
“looking like a snow-storm”. Hindwing dark with darker veins and grey lines at the inner margin. Similar 
to tigrina. $ 50 mm. Brisbane. 
X. tigrina H.-Schdfj. (99d). Body white with a median row of blackish-brown spots. Forewing white 
with rows of black streaks and round spots. Olive brown from the base through the centre of the wing 
as far as V 3) then again on % of the length and before the margin. Hindwing blackish-brown. Fringes of 
both wings speckled. Abdomen of $ yellow with black and white segmental margins. Hindwing with fused 
dark spots. $ 36 mm. Australia. 
X. columbina Trnr. Body blackish-brown, dusted with grey. Forewing blackish-brown, dusted dove- 
coloured. Short black submarginal streaks between the veins and before them a series of streaks from the 
centre of the inner margin to % of the costal margin, the central streaks fine. Hindwing somewhat lighter. 
Fringes of both wings spotted, q 100 — 110 mm. Brisbane. 
X. interlucens Trnr. Body dark greyish-brown, the abdominal segments interruptedly margined with 
black. Forewing blackish-brown, dusted grey. Hindwing pale grey. 55—75 mm. Brisbane. 
X. minutiscripta Trnr. Body grey with black and white scales. Forewing dark greyish-brown with 
lighter grey places, densely covered with black striae between the veins. The spots at the costal margin 
large. Hindwing light grey. <$ 58 mm. Brisbane. 
X. irretita Trnr. Body black with deeper black segmental margins on the abdomen. Forewing dark 
smoky brown with glossy black spots and reticulate lines between the veins. An indistinct black stripe from 
1 U i° 3 A °f the inner margin and another one from there obliquely to % of the costal margin. A submarginal 
stripe behind it from the apex to half of the inner margin. Hindwing white with smoky grey marginal 
spots, 50—62 mm. Brisbane. 
X. columellaris Trnr. Thorax blackish-brown, abdomen grey. Forewing blackish-brown, spotted white, 
with black straight and crooked striae between the veins. A dark faded band from % of the inner margin 
to the apex. Hindwing brownish ochreous. 56—64 mm. Brisbane. 
X. insulana Trnr. Body blackish-brown, abdomen dusted grey and with black bands. Forewing 
blackish-brown with black and grey shadows and dispersed tufts of white scales. The veins as jet-black 
lines, black striae also between them. All is more indistinct in the $. The marking resembles “isolated, islands 
surrounded by mud-banks”. A band of spots from the costal margin near the base to half the- length of 
the wing, where it is % distant from the costal margin, then to the distal margin close before the apex. 
The dark colouring encloses the whole centre of the wing and the distal half at the costal margin; besides the 
inner and distal margins are dark. Irregular black arcuate lines at the distal margin. Hindwing blackish- 
brown with black veins, rows of black streaks before the margin. 85—130 mm. Melbourne, Brisbane. 
The following species described as Zeuzera certainly belongs to this genus here. 
X. neuroxantha Lower. Body whitish, prothorax more densely covered with black scales. Abdomen 
with dark segmental margins, anal tuft black. Forewing whitish with Hack marking, the veins more or less 
yellow. A wedge-shaped spot at the centre of the costal margin, its point extending downwards % of the 
width of the wing. Three costal-marginal spots before it towards the base. On % another wedge-spot, 
extending to the centre of the wing. Two spots before it at the costal margin, 2 or 3 behind it towards 
the apex. More or less large spots below them, not reaching to the apex or the base. The lower half at the 
distal margin is light. A whitish longitudinal patch above the inner margin at %. About 3 or 4 narrow black 
rings at the distal margin in the lower two thirds. Hindwing blackish-brown, lighter at the base. 36—40 mm. 
New South Wales. 
12. Genus: I'ossodes White. 
Antennae of $ long, filiform. Distal margin of forewing more oblique than in Xyleutes. Hindwing 
somewhat rounder. The only species is somewhat similar to pale specimens of Xyl. mineus (99 c). 
