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SOVMESLEPIDOPTEROUS *PESES 
New to Sugar Cane in Queensland. 
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My object in publishing the following notes is to officially record the 
presence in North Queensland canefields of a few Lepidoptera not 
included in Bulletin No. 3 of this Office. 
Four of these insects affect cane in other countries; two of them— 
which happen to be closely related to the destructive ‘‘Army Worm’”’ 
(Cirphis unipuncta Haw.)—becoming at times sufficiently injurious to 
necessitate repressive measures. 
In addition to describing, where thought advisable, early life- 
eycle stages, the writer has prepared lists enumerating a number of 
Lepidoptera allied to the insects under consideration that affect cane 
elsewhere, reference to which will enable readers to determine at a 
glance indigenous species that may prove hurtful to this crop in the 
future, together with those whose possible introduction into Queensland 
is undesirable. 
Among the latter class, for instance, may be cited the ‘‘ Pink Borer’’ 
of cane (Sesamia vuteria Stoll.), an insect very closely related to our 
own moth-borer Phragmatiphila truncata Walk. 
D’Emmerez de Charmoy considers this pest the most harmful cane 
borer in Mauritius. ‘‘Its attacks,’’ he states, ‘‘are so severe in certain 
localities that it is not uncommon to notice young virgin fields completely 
destroyed or so mined that only a few plants remain, whose presence 
seems to emphasise the importance of the damage done.”’ 
It was introduced into Mauritius in cane-stalks, and occurs also 
as a serious sugar pest in Celebes, Java, Reunion, Madagascar, and 
throughout Africa. 
During 1909 Kirealdy! published a preliminary catalogue of the 
insects frequenting canefields, in which he mentions no less than eighty- 
two species of Lepidoptera. Of these fully 75 per cent. belong to the 
Bombylide, Noctuide, Pyralide, and Tineidwe; the remainder being 
seattered among eleven other families. 
1“ A Bibliography of Sugar Cane Entomology.’’ Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ 
Association, Bulletin No. 8, Division of Entomology, Hawaii 1909. 
