248 NEW SPECIES OF QUEENSLAND LEPIDOPTERA, 



angle is suffused across this last line to discal spot; a subhind- 



marginal line, and a hindmarginal line deep chestnut brown, form 



a band with a fine white line between : cilia fuscous, darker at 



base. Hindwings as forewings, a lunular discal spot opposite 



and near to J costa; a circular and w^avy line from | costa to 



opposite J inner margin; hindmarginal line thinning out at anal 



angle, not so dark as the same line in forewings ; cilia whitish, 



with basal row of chestnut dots. 



Mr. Batchelor, a collector by occupation, has bred this insect 



freely, feeding on a wild vine, Lyonsia reticulata. It spins a web 



in a leaf, or webs the leaf to the tree against which the vine 



grows. It is a green caterpillar, with two subdorsal rows of 



j^ellow dots. 



Brisbane. 



Family XYLORYCTID^. 



Cryptophaga confundens, n.sp. 



(J 9. 28-45 mm. Head grey, mottled with slaty-grey and light 

 fuscous. Palpi slaty -gre}^, first and second joints lighter on upper 

 side. Antennae dark grey or black, with fine grey annulations. 

 Thorax grey, diffused with slaty-grey and darker slate-bluish dots. 

 Abdomen fuscous-grey, freely splashed with whitish-grey and 

 black, in a band along base of each segment, but metallic-coppery 

 dusted with silver hairs on free half of segments ; in some speci- 

 mens the basal band is crossed by rich black lines edged with 

 grey or white. Legs woolly-grey, with rich blackish-fuscous 

 bands. Forewings oblong, costa gently arched, hindmargin 

 slightly concave in costal half, rounded on inner half; vein 2 from 

 before h', gi'ey, more or less diffused with slaty-grey (and in some 

 specimens sparingly with red coppery tint), with white scales, and 

 richly and variously marked with rich black bars and lines; a rich 

 black band at base, more or less constant and becoming more 

 definite and constant along inner margin to \, a rich band from 

 middle of base obliquely toward costa, thinning out or suffusing 

 with another from J to before ^; a band transversely from ^i^ costa 

 to within \ inner margin opposite |; half way between this line 



