14 Some Lepidopterous Pests New to Sugar Cane in Queensland. 
Habitat. 
This hesperid has been previously recorded from Prince of Wales 
Island, Kuranda, Rockhampton, Brisbane, Sydney, Herberton, in March ; 
and from Roseville near Sydney in April. 
The following Hesperide have been recorded as being harmful to 
the foliage of sugar-cane :— 
Discophora celinde Stoll. 
aD 
3. Hesperia philino Moschler .. 
4. Hesperia sp. (undetermined) 
5. Hesperia sp. (undetermined) 
6. Padraona dara Koll, 
* 7, Padraona hypomoloma Lower 
* 8. Padraona marnas Feld. 
9. Pamphila sp. a 
*10. Parnara mathias Fab. 
11. Perimeles remus Fabr, 
12. Prenes ares Feld. 
13. Prenes nero F. oa sn 
*14. Telicota augias-kreffti Macel. 
. Hesperia conjuncta Herr Sch. 
Oriental region. 
Java. 
Java. 
Trinidad. 
Trinidad. 
Orient. 
Queensland. 
Queensland. 
British Guiana, 
Java; Queensland. 
Mexico. 
Porto Rico. 
Porto Rico. 
Java; Queensland. 
15. Thymelicus sp. British Guiana. 
** BAG-MOTH ” (Family PSYCHID:). 
A species of ‘‘Bag-moth’’ (undetermined, but near Hyalarcta) is 
often noticed in plantations around Gordonvale and Meringa, where it 
occasions minor damage to leaves of sugar-cane, resembling in character 
that due to grasshopper injury. 
Larve of this species construct as a protection an elongated bag, 
beautifully lined inside with soft but exceedingly strong silk, to the 
outside of which they attach at first minute woody fragments, and 
finally, when nearly full-grown, a number of sticks of varying lengths 
attached at one end near the mouth of the bag. 
It is no easy matter to tear or even cut open one of these cases, yet 
the writer has often found those of the ‘‘Stick-case Moth’’ (Clania 
ignoblis Walk.), a common Victorian species, torn open, presumably by 
some bird of prey. The larve, moreover, are very subject to attacks from 
hymenopterous parasites, which are able to pierce the tough silken bag 
with their needle-like ovipositors; and also from tachinid flies, which 
manage to glue their eggs to its body near the head whilst it is feeding. 
Owing to the female moth being wingless, and the larvae unfitted for 
travelling far afield, infestation is necessarily confined to very limited 
areas. 
Some of the Psychide, as Thyridopteryx ephemeraformis Haw.., 
occasion considerable injury to shade trees, evergreens, &e. 
Our cane ‘‘bag-worm’’ sustains a severe check during harvesting 
operations, so is not likely to increase to an injurious extent. 
