Notes on Insects Damaging Sugar Cane in Queensland. 



PLATE I. 



Fig. 1 — Phragmatiphila truncata, Walk. " Noctiiid Moth Borer" (natural size). 

 A.— Horns on tail-end of pupa of same (magnified ; Q. Dep. Ag.). 



Fig. 2 — Diatraea saccharalis, Fabr. "Moth Stalk-Borer" (enlarged; after Howard, 

 U.S. Dep. Agric.) 



Fig. 3 — Rhabdocneniis obscums, Boisd. " Beetle Borer" (enlarged). 

 B. — Grxib of same (natural size ; after Terry). 



Fig. 4 — Polyocha sp. " Moth Shoot-Borer" (natural size ; original). 



Fig. 6 — Loxostoma sp. ? " Bud Moth" (magnified 4 times ; original). {See also Plate II). 



Fig. 7 — Cosmopteryx sp. " Leaf-Rib Borer" (magnified 5 times), 

 c. — -Larva of same (highly niagnified). 

 D. — Nature of injury to mid-rib of cane leaf (all original). 



Fig. 11 — " White Ant" {Termes meridionalis, Frogg). Antennae and part of head of 

 soldier ant (enlarged). 

 E. — Mandible of same (highly magnified). 

 F. — Antenna of same (highly magnified ; all original) 



Fig. 19 — Cirphis unipuncta. Haw. "Army Worm " (natural size). 



G. — Caterpillar or cutworm of same (natural size; after Wills). 



Fig. 25 — Euproctis holoxutha, Turner. " Brown-tail Moth" (natural size). 

 H. — ^Wing scales of same (higlily magnified ; original). 



