6 Some Lepidopterous Pests New to Sugar Cane in Queensland. 
Since that date, however, we? have listed ten Australian species 
known to be more or less injurious, while possibly an additional thirty 
or forty lepidopterous insects might easily find a place in the fauna of 
our canefields. 
In all probability the total number of moths and butterflies at 
present recorded by entomologists as associated prejudicially with sugar- 
cane will be found to fall little short of 100 species. 
Whilst aware that some of the insects forming the subject of the 
present bulletin are of minor economic importance, the writer feels that 
their occurrence in Queensland canefields being of scientific interest 
warrants official recognition. 
CIRPHIS LOREYI Dup. (Family NOCTUID 2). 
(Figure 1.) 
Synonymy—Leucania albistigma Moore. 
Leucania collecta Walker. 
Leucania denotata Walk. 
Leucania designata Walk. 
Leucania exsanges Guen, 
Leucania exterior Walk. 
Leucania loreyi Dup. 
Leucana thoracica Walk, 
Leucania tenebrifera Walk. 
This moth was first noticed in the vicinity of Gordonvale, North 
Queensland, towards the end of the year 1914, when several specimens 
were bred at the Sugar Experiment Station from caterpillars found 
eating leaves of young plant and ratoon cane. 
Whilst writing Bulletin No. 3 of this Office in 1916 its occurrence 
here as a cane pest was overlooked, and not alluded to in subsequent 
monthly reports; so that up to the present it has never before been 
recorded by us. 
Larva, 
The caterpillar of this noctuid resembles somewhat in general 
appearance and colouration that of the well-known ‘‘ Army Worm’’ 
(Cirphis unpuncta Haw.), inflicting injuries to the foliage identical in 
character to those occasioned by the latter insect. 
Like larve of wnipuncta, they usually conceal themselves by day in 
the centre of affected plants among the unfolding leaves, and feed mostly 
at night-time; so that under such conditions the presence of loreyt might 
very easily remain unnoticed, and in all probability its occurrence in 
our canefields is by no means uncommon. 
Veitch® has deseribed Fiji specimens of the larva as being hght 
***Notes on Insects Damaging Sugar Cane in Queensland.’’ QId. Bureau Sugar 
Iixperiment Stations, Div. Entomology Bull. No. 3, Brisbane 1916. 
*From an unpublished report entitled, ‘‘Some Observations on a Sugar-cane 
Army Worm, Cirphis loreyi Dup.’’ Fiji 1915. 
