24 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTEEA, 



with brassy-metallic, especially . on three anal segments, which 

 become wholly brassy. Antennas black, terminal | white. Fore- 

 wings nan^ow, apex acute, hindmargin obliquely rounded; black, 

 with three equidistant golden-metallic straight fascise, 1st from ^, 

 2nd from middle, 3rd from | of costa, and all ending on inner 

 margin; base of wing somewhat golden-metallic; a short inwardly 

 oblique golden-metallic tooth at apex, reaching about ^- across 

 wing : cilia black, terminal half white. Hindwings very narrow, 

 somewhat linear, blackish, thinly scaled; cilia six times as broad 

 as wing, blackish. 



Broken Hill, N.S. Wales; bred freely in March, from plants. 



Mr. Mej'rick, who kindly identified this and several of the 

 other species mentioned in this paper, stated some time ago in 

 the Proceedings of the Society that the genus Lithocolleiis was 

 unrepresented in Australia, but later he was able to describe a 

 new species under the name of ac/Iaozona, which at the time he 

 remarked was not truly indigenous, as the larvse were found feed- 

 ing on a species of Desmodium, one of the Leguminosce, from 

 which he inferred that the species was introduced with its food 

 plant. In the present species it is a curious coincidence that the 

 larvse were first found by Dr. Blaxland feeding on Ilardenbergia 

 oval.a, also one of the eguminosoi, consequently I think that we 

 have discovered a truly indigenous species, as it seems hardly 

 probable (although possible) that the larva would feed on an 

 indigenous plant, unless attached to the same. It may be an 

 adaption to circumstances, but I hardly think so, as in close 

 proximity were growing Cassia Brewsteri, and Ilardenbergia 

 feniaphylla, neither of which shewed any sign of the larva, 

 whereas the food plant was attacked in a most prolific manner. 



PLUTELLID.ffi. 



Plutella paeacycla n.sp. 



(J-9. 22, 25 mm. Head, palpi, antenna, and thorax white; 

 antennal ciliations 1, second joint of palpi beneath fuscous, 

 densely rough-haired, abdomen greyish, ochreous-tinged. Legs 



