74 Mr. E. Meyrick on the classification 



Anterior femora in male with an expansible tuft of hairs. Fore wings 

 with 1 shortly furcate, 4 and 5 separate. Hind wings with 4 and 5 

 separate, 8 anastomosing with 7. 



Larva feeding gregariously in large galls, 16-legged. 



A curious genus, characterised by the peculiar palpi 

 of the male and the expansible hairs of the anterior 

 femora. 



17. (Edematophaga (sgalis, Walk. 



Pyralis <s^wsrtits, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 912 ; ? Gauna 

 suhferralis, ibid, Suppl., 1253. 



(J , 2 , 15 — 22 mm. Head and palpi pale whitish ochreous, 

 irrorated with fuscous-carmine. Antennae whitish oclireous. Thorax 

 grey mixed with ochreous-whitish, shoulders purphsh. Abdomen 

 ochreous-whitish, purple-shining, irrorated with dark grey, base and 

 apex more yellow. Legs purphsh carmine, mixed with dark 

 fuscous, apex of joints whitish yellowish. Fore wings elongate- 

 triangular, costa slightly sinuate in middle, abrujptly arched before 

 aiJex, apex obtuse, hind margin slightly sinuate below apex, bowed 

 in middle, rather oblique; fuscous, somewhat purple -shining, 

 suffused with dark fuscous towards base and inner margin ; a 

 slender curved whitish line from two-fifths of costa to three-fifths of 

 inner margin, lower half followed by a blackish red shade ; a small 

 dark fuscous discal spot ; a slender sinuate whitish line fi'om three- 

 fourths of costa to three-fourths of inner margin ; beyond this a 

 fuscoiTS-red costal patch, shading into dark fuscous beneath ; cilia 

 light fuscous, with two darker lines. Hind wings fuscous, suffused 

 with dark reddish towards imier angle ; two slender whitish lines, 

 first before, second beyond middle, obsolete on costa, broader and 

 more conspicuous towards inner margin, much more nearly 

 approximated on lower half; ciha fuscous, with a darker line, 

 becoming carmine towards inner angle. 



The type of Gauna suhferralis is so poor that it can 

 hardly be identified. 



Larva feeding gregariously in large very irregularly 

 spherical rough galls, three or four inches in diameter, 

 on the branches of a phyllodineous Acacia, which was 

 not in flower at the time of my visit, and is therefore at 

 present not identified ; the larva eats galleries through 

 the substance of the galls, ejecting a good deal of the 

 excrement from holes in the surface. 



Brisbane, Queensland. I found the larvse feeding in 

 September, and bred several specimens in November 

 and December. 



