OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 161 



The fullest notice of these Lepidoptera is contained in a most 

 interesting communication by M. T. Kiinckel, of 30th Aug., 1875, 

 to " Comptes Rendus," which is translated in the Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History, accompanied by drawings, at p. 

 371 of vol. XVI., for 1875. 



Mr. Slack has just forwarded me a paper read by him before 

 the Royal Microscopical Society on 6th October, 1875, on " Per- 

 forating Proboscis," in which he called attention to a short notice 

 in April, 1874, by Mr. M'Intyre, describing the perforating 

 proboscis of a moth said to have come from West Africa. Mr. 

 Slack also refers to the paper by Kiinckel, whom he corrects in an 

 important detail, viz., the asserted rigidity of the trunk. 



Had, however, the publication been continued of Scott's 

 " Australian Lepidoptera," notice would have been attracted as 

 early as 1864, since in a lithograph (exhibited to the Society) 

 prepared for Part IV by Miss Scott, the Antlia are figured with 

 " serrations immediately behind the sharply pointed tip," the 

 description given in Mr. Scott's M.SS. 



The genus OjpMderes Boisd., to which the possession appears 

 to be confined of Antlia whose terminal forms a teretron (riperpov. 

 a borer, gimlet) is represented in New South Wales by two 

 species, 0. fullonica, and 0. Atkinsoni (Scott. M.SS.), and as 

 these species are also found in Queensland at Rockhampton, they 

 are probably identical with those which attracted the notice of the 

 French botanist, Thozet, who first drew Kunckel's attention to 

 their depredations on the Orange. 



Of the specimens from which the accompanying drawings have 

 been made, I am indebted for those of 0. fullonica, to Wm. 

 Macleay, Esq., whose valuable Museum at Elizabeth Bay, is of 

 such service to students of Natural History ; and for those of 0. 

 Atkinsoni, to the kind courtesy of Walker Scott, Esq. 



In his paper, Kiinckel stated that Opliideres were exceptional 

 to the other Lepidoptera, since they possessed a rigid trunk ; in 

 this he was in error, since the Antlia coil in the usual way, 

 although the terminal portion which may be designated the 

 teretron possesses considerable rigidity. 



Although aware of Kiinckel's description and illustration, I was 

 quite unprepared for the wonderful appearance the antlia dis- 



