BY E. MEYRIOK, B.A. 179 



Allied to the preceding, but with additional yellowish markings 

 from base, and on costa and hind-margin. Common at Sydney 

 and Newcastle from January to April, and in July and August, 

 in dry scrub amongst different species of Banksia fProteaceceJ, on 

 which the larva must feed. I have found rather commonly a 

 larva mining blotches in upper surface of leaves of Bmihsia serrata, 

 which I conjectured to belong to this species, but they proved 

 difficult to rear, all drying up. 



BUCCULATRIX, Z. 



Head roughly tufted on crown, face smooth ; no ocelli ; tongue 

 very short. Antennae shorter than fore- wings, filiform,, slender, 

 with rather small eyecap. No maxillary palpi. No labial palpi. 

 Fore-wings elongate, narrow, long-pointed, apex somewhat 

 produced. Hind-wings narrowly lanceolate, ^ to |- of fore-wings, 

 cilia 2^ to 4 times as broad. Legs slender, posterior tibise long- 

 haired. Fore-wings with from 8 to 10 veins ; 4 or 5 veins to costa, 

 cell closed, 1 simple. Hind- wings without cell ; median three- 

 branched. 



Probably a genus of moderate extent, at present represented 

 by about forty rather closely allied species from Europe, and 

 North and South America. The Australian species are very 

 similar to the typical forms, and to one another. The genus may 

 be immediately separated from all others by the roughly tufted 

 head and the absence of palpi. The larvse are peculiar amongst 

 their allies ; sixteen-legged, rough-skinned, mining when very 

 young, but afterwards feeding externally and unprotected on the 

 under side of leaves. Pupa in a silken cocoon, generally charac. 

 teristically ribbed with raised longitudinal lines. 



Bucc. eucalypti, n. sp. 

 $ . 2f". Head with dark fuscous hairs on crown, behind 

 whitish, face white. Antennae white with dark fuscous annulations 

 Thorax whitish-ochreons. Abdomen whitish-grey. Legs whitish- 



