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found by Mr. Boden transparent, and not red in colour, as when they 

 have fed upon mankind. Those larvae which had been attacked by the 

 fleas appeared to pine away and die. 



Perhaps, Acrcea Thalio, in Brazil, and A. Vesta, in the Himalaya, 

 are attacked in the same manner as P. menapia. Of both I have 

 received very large numbers, collected at Cantagallo and Kooloo. 

 The chrysalids were bundled together, as in P. menapia, and also 

 partially dry — perhaps, from the same cause. 



Cambridge, Mass. : 



February, 1883. 



ON SOME AUSTRALIAN TRYCIBM. 

 BY E. METEICK. 



It seems advisable to publish at once the following additional notes 

 to my list of Australian Phycid(e,i\i view of M. Eagonot's forthcoming 

 monograph of the group. 



Zopliodia ensiferella, Meyr. The ? has the fore-wings narrower, 

 paler, and redder than in the (J, the hind-wings whitish instead of 

 grey, and the abdomen very elongate and curiously depressed 

 posteriorly. 



Cateremna leiicarma, Meyr. The larva forms true galls on shrubs 

 of Eucalyptus oleosa ; the galls are long, irregularly cylindrical, appar- 

 ently formed of a metamorphosed cluster of leaves. 



Snlehria gypsopa, n. sj). 

 $ ^ . 17- -21 mm. Head dull white. Palpi whitish, sprinkled on sides with 

 dark fuscous ; maxillary tufts of $ oclireous. Antennae grey, annulated with paler. 

 Thorax white, sprinkled with dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Anterior 

 tibiae dark fuscous, apex whitish ; middle and posterior tibiae whitish, sprinkled with 

 dark fuscous, with a dark fuscous sub-apical ring ; all tarsi dark fuscous, with 

 whitish rings at apex of joints. Fore-wings elongate, narrow, gradually dilated, 

 costa nearly straight, arched towards apex, hind-margin obliquely rounded ; white, 

 irregularly clouded with pale oclireous, and irrorated with dark fuscous ; first line 

 oblique, slightly curved, double, dark fuscous, enclosing a whitish line, forming a 

 white spot on costa, inner edge broadly dark fuscous, deepest towards costa, outer 

 edge slender, broken or indistinct ; au elongate dark fuscous suffusion along middle 

 third of costa ; a black dot in disc beyond middle, situated on lower margin of a 

 short, longitudinal, clear, white streak ; second line double, dark fuscous, enclosing 

 a whitish line, margins well-defined, faintly dentate, shortly angulated inwards above 

 middle, outwards in middle, and again inwards above inner margin, posterior edge 

 broader and more suffused towards costa ; hind-margin suffusedly dotted with dark 

 fuscous ; cilia whitish, with four irregular fuscous-grey lines. Hind-wings pale 

 oclu-eous-grey, with a sufPused dark fuscous hind-marginal line j cilia whitish, with 

 a fuscous-grev line near base. 



