The Cane Grubs of Australia. 15 
LEPIDIOTA Sp. No. 666. 
Stage I11.—Greatest length, 38 mm.; width at base of anal segment, 
11 mm.; length in natural curved position, 18 mm.; thickness, 9 mm. ; 
vidth of head, 6 mm.; length to apex of labrum, 5-5 mm. 
Almost exactly similar to No. 533, but anal path shorter, the delimit- 
ing sete longer almost meeting across path, with about forty (or less) 
sete on either side, the cephalic third with only one row on either side 
(in 533 delimiting sete short, not nearly meeting across path, with 
about fifty or less [but more than forty] sete on either side, the cephalic 
third with two or more irregular rows on either side) ; peritremes almost 
closed; margins of mandibles not uniformly converging towards apex, 
the mandible no wider at nearly half its length from apex than at the 
apex of the inner tooth (or teeth, since it is plainly double), in 533, 
margins of mandible uniformly converging towards apex, and thus much 
wider towards base than toward apex. Retinaculum in both species 
with the outer tooth dorsad divided into two obtuse teeth. Mandible 
‘shaped as in No. 377. Otherwise apparently the same as No. 533. 
Stage 11.—Greatest length, 26 mm.; width, 7 mm.; length in natural 
curved position, 12 mm.; thickness, 6 mm.; width of head, 4 mm.; lengt:- 
to apex of labrum, 3-75 mm. 
LEPIDIOTA Sp. No. 215. 
Stage [11.—Similar to No. 377 in size and all respects but will differ 
as follows:—Anal path longer, the sides more distinctly convex, the 
delimiting setz not meeting across meson of path, these sete denser and 
shorter, about twenty on either side (never more than twelve in No. 377), 
and very distinct, being much darker than surrounding sete. 
Stage IIJ.—Similar in size, &¢., to corresponding stage of No. 377. 
Although very similar to No. 377, the characteristics appear to hold. 
LEPIDIOTA Sp. No. 89. 
Stage I1I.—Greatest length at stretch, 30 mm.; width at base of 
anal segment, 9 mm.; length in natural curved position, 12 mm.; thick- 
ness, 5-5 mm.; width of head, 5 mm.; length to apex of labrum, 4:75 mm. 
Similar to albohirta but will differ as follows :—First antennal joint 
short, one-half longer than wide and barely more than half as long as 
second, without set, the second with one seta dorsad and three ventrad, 
the third with two setz at half its length ventrad (in albohirta, first 
antennal joint nearly thrice as long as wide and distinctly more than 
half as long as second, with five [seven?] setz dorsad, the second with 
only one seta dorsad in centre, the third naked); cephalic margin of 
epicranial sclerite without a row of sete; left mandible with two small 
yet distinct teeth, inside apical tooth, first joint of maxillary palpus 
with three sete dorsad (naked in albohirta) ; stigmata and peritremes 
about as in No. 533; latero-cervical shield no more than twice as wide as 
greatest length (cephalo-caudad), naked except for three set along its 
caudo-dorsal side, not reaching ventrad farther than a line drawn 
cephalo-caudad through centre of thoracic peritreme, the angle formed 
bv the two caudal sides, acute (in albohirta, the shield fully thrice 
as long as greatest width, its cephalic margin also with long rather dense 
sete, reaching ventrad much below peritreme, the angle formed by the 
two caudal sides very obtuse); first lobe of prothorax with only two 
sete on either side, the second with three on either side, the third naked, 
