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diffused into a band from beyond half costa to before anal angle 

 of inner margin ; a fine denticulate line three-fourth costa 

 meeting a broad band of diffused chocolate and spots from apex 

 of costa, running along hind margin and broadly suffused at anal 

 angle with median band ; a hind-marginal row of dots ; cilia 

 ochreous, barred and banded with chocolate. Hindwings 

 ochreous, freely speckled Avith fuscous, with a diffused darker 

 broad chocolate hind-marginal band ; cilia as forewings. One 

 specimen, Brisbane. 



GEOUP TORTRICINA. 



MELISSO BLAPTESPARASITICrS. SP. NOV. 



4? V{])\ 85 — 37. Head light ochreous fuscous. AntenuiB 

 fuscous, Avith white annulations, lighter towards base. Palpi 

 ferrous fuscous, sub-ascending. Thorax light purple fuscous, 

 irrorated with ochreous and black scales. Abdomen ferrous 

 fuscous. Forewings elongate, moderately broad, costa rounded ; 

 hind nuirgin obliquely rounded, ferrous fuscous, freely irrorated 

 with black scales, a ligh ochreous dash or dot close to median at 

 one-fifth, a rhomboid discal blotch of same colour before half, 

 two minute dots of same immediately beyond, and two or three 

 in some specimens beyond and toward apex ; cilia fuscous, with 

 smoky band at base crossed by nine minute ochreous dots, and 

 bounded by a tine ochreous line. Hindwings ochreous at base 

 and shading into smoky fuscous toward margins ; cilia ferrous 

 fuscous. Feeds on the larva? of Cryptophaga. 



Allied to M. bipunctatus, Z., concerning which Meyrick says 

 little of their habits is known. This appears to be a true parasite, 

 feeding within the larva, but whether it feeds on the digesting 

 food in the stomach of the caterpillar, or whether it attacks the 

 caterpillar later on, as in the pupa state, I cannot be certain, but 

 am inclined to .believe the latter. It kills its host, and is thus 

 unlike the honey and wax feeders. ^Meyrick classifies this with 

 the Pyralidina Family Galleriada^. 



Brisbane. 



GROUP TINEINA.— FA]\nLY XYLORICTID.E. 



XYLORICTA AUSTERA. SP. NOV. 



6 111^1)1^26. Head and thorax creamy white. AntenniS, 

 stalk creamy white, psctinations fuscous. Palpi, creamy fuscous. 



