130 AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA (PYRALID.E). 



rounded, slightly oblique ; whitish suffused with pale-green' 

 and irrorated with grey ; a transverse whitish line at \ 

 ■forming three large dentations : a blackish oblique discal 

 mark at middle preceded by a blackish dot ; a finely dentate 

 whitish line edged anteriorly by a fine grey line, from §• 

 costa outwards, then bent in disc, and ending on -i termen : 

 beyond this is a greyish suffusion ; a terminal series of dark- 

 fuscous dots ; cilia grey mixed with whitish. Hindwings 

 grey, paler towards base ; cilia whitisli with a grey basal. 



line. 



Type in Coll., Turner. 



X.Q. Herberton in January ; one sj)ecimen received^ 



from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



DOLOESSA VIRIDIS. 



Viridis, Zel., Isis, 1848, p. 860. 

 Thatjora fiyurana, Wlk.. Brit. Mus. Cat. xxvii., p. 205, 

 Hmps., 111. Het. ix. PI. l.")?.. f. 8. Moths Ind.. iv., p. 5. 

 N.Q. Cairns. Also from Java and Ceylon. 



Meliphora myrmecophila, n. sp. 



fjivf)fjir)K(KfiLX(><;, ant loving. 



9 22 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and abdomen 

 fuscous. Legs fuscous irrorated and annulated with 

 whitish. Forewings elongate-oval, costa strongly arched, 

 apex rounded, termen very obliquely rounded ; fuscous 

 with some dark-fuscous irroration especially towards base ; 

 some dark-fuscous scales on termen ; cilia fuscous. Hind- 

 wings with termen sinuate ; fuscous, paler towards base ; 

 cilia fuscous. 



Type in Coll.. Turner. 



X.Q. Townsville, in October ; one specimen received 

 from Mr. F. P. Dodd. who found the rather hairy and 

 somewhat smoky larvae in the closed galleries of a tree ant 

 {Crematog aster s.p.), where they pupate, the small oval 

 cocoons being peppered with small fragments of l)ark. 



Gen. ACARA. 

 Acara, Wlk., Brit. Mus. Cat. xxvii., p. 198, Hmps., Moths 



Ind., iv., p. 7. 

 Palpi clothed with long hairs. Antennae of ^ minutely 

 ciliated, with a tuft of long hairs from basal joint. Fore- 

 wings with apex acute and produced ; lower angle of cell' 

 more or less produced, 2 from middle, 3 from |, 4 and 5- 



