Some Lepidopterous Pests New to Sugar Cane in Queensland. 13 
Habitat. 
This insect has been recorded as damaging leaves of sugar-cane in 
Java, Mauritius, and North Queensland. A closely related species, 
Melanitis ismene Cr. is similarly destructive in the Orient. 
PADRAONA HYPOMOLOMA Lower. (Family HESPERID). 
(Figure 4.) 
Synonym—Ocybadistes hypomoloma Lower. 
This butterfly was recorded for the first time as feeding on cane- 
leaves in August 1917 (Australian Sugar Journal, vol. ix., p. 303), when 
it was observed by the writer damaging ‘‘ Badilla’’ plants growing in 
pots at the Entomological Laboratory, Gordonvale, North Queensland. 
It is the fourth species found attacking cane in the Cairns district, the 
other three—two of which affect cane in Java—having been previously 
recorded in Bulletin No. 3 of this Office. 
In 1914 A. P. Dodd, Assistant Entomologist, found larve of Telicota 
augias-krefitt Mael., Padraona marnas Feld., and Parnara mathias Fab., 
attacking cane leaves at Babinda and Harvey’s Creek; while in 1915 the 
writer bred augias-kreffti and mathias from affected stools at Gordon- 
vale, finding these two species to be of common occurrence in our 
canefields. 
Unfortunately the early stages of the life-cyele of hypomoloma were 
not noted. The pupa, however, which is about 2 in. long, is pale brownish 
yellow with a dull-red U-shaped plate on dorsum of anal segment bearing 
two very short pointed horns. The rounded edge of anal plate lying 
between these horns is scalloped, while the extremity of the anal segment 
is obtuse, reddish, somewhat flattened vertically, and furnished with 
numerous yellow bristles. 
The general colouration of this ‘‘skipper’’ butterfly may be briefly 
described as—Dark-brown, contrasted conspicuously with rich orange- 
yellow, the latter colour being arranged on fore-wing in the form of an 
oblique stripe near outer margin, and a large triangular blotch on costa. 
A broad transverse band of the same colour, placed below two spots, 
crosses the middle of hind-wing. Expanse—25 to 33 mm. (14 in.). 
A detailed description of this insect was published in 1911 by Lower, 
who placed it in genus Ocybadistes; to which entomologists are accord- 
ingly referred for more complete information regarding its specific 
distinction.° 
Waterhouse and Lyell, however, in 1914 merged Ocybadistes in 
Padraona, putting hypomoloma in the latter genus.‘ 
®¢<Revision of Australian Hesperide,’’ Trans. Royal Soe., South Australia, 
vol. xxxv, 1911. 
7“<The Butterflies of Australia,’’ Waterhouse and Lyell; Angus and Robertson 
Ltd., Sydney, Australia, 1914, 
