ISO NOCTUID-E. 



5264. Eublemma dubia. 



Mataomera dubia, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 188fi, p. 418, pi. x. f. 2. 

 Thalpochares cocciphaga, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 1037 



(1887). 



Head and tegulaa red-brown ; tborax and abdomen whitish 

 suffused with red-brown. Fore wing greyish almost entirely 

 suffused and irrorated with red-brown, the postmedial area whiter ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, faintly defined on inner side by grey, 

 excurved from costa to submedian fold, then incurved ; a faint dark 

 discoidal spot ; postmedial line indistinct, slightly defined on outer 

 side by white, excurved from costa to vein 4 and slightly angled 

 inwards in submedian fold, a paler patch beyond it on costa ; an 

 indistinct minutely waved whitish subterminal line with a series 

 of minute black points on its outer edge, somewhat excurved at 

 middle and bent outwards to tornus ; a fine brown terminal line ; 

 cilia darker with a slight whitish line at base. Hind wing grey- 

 white tinged and irrorated with red-brown ; traces of a minutely 

 waved whitish subterminal line with some minute black points on 

 its outer edge ; cilia darker; the underside grey irrorated with 

 brown except on inner area. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial area darker, the subterminal 

 black spots distinct. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing wholly suffused with grey-white with some 

 fuscous irroration. 



Ab. 3. Pore wing almost uniformly suffused with white. 



Hob. Queensland, Gayndah, 1 $ , Peak Downs, 1 d type, 



Duaringa, 1 tf , 2 $ , Cairns {Turner), 1 S , Brisbane {Turner), 1 $ , 



1 $ , Moreton Bay {Biggies), 1 c? ; W. Australia, Sherlock 11. 



{Clements), 1 d ; N. S. Wales, Sydney {Baynor, Lyell, Arnold), 11 



d , 12 2 • Exp. 16-26 millim. 



Larva. Oliff, Agr. Gaz. N. S. "W. iv. p. (583, plate, & Tepper, Pr. E. Soc. 

 S. Austr. xvii. p. 129. 



Whitish with black head, stout ; two 1st pairs of prolegs absent. 

 Peeds on the Coccids Lecanium oltce, liesperidum and testudo, and 

 Eriococcus eucalypti. 



5265. Eublemma costimacula. 



Anthophila costimacula, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 365, f. 114 (1801). 

 Eublemma plagiopcra, Huipsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 420 (1902). 



Head and teguloe white mixed with some pale brown ; antennas 

 brown ; thorax rufous, white in front and with some pale brown on 

 shoulders ; abdomen white suffused with pale brown and irrorated 

 with black leaving white segmental lines ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen white irrorated with black, the tarsi pale brown 

 ringed with white. Pore wing reddish brown slightly mixed with 

 white ; a white streak in cell to the antemedial line, the area above 

 it irrorated with black : antemedial line white, bent inwards to 

 costa and inner margin ; a slight blackish discoidal striga with 





