BY E. MEYRICK, B.A. 423 



1. Pal. styphelana, n. sp. 



$ ? . 6"-8". Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax dark ashy- 

 grey. Abdomen dark ochreous-grey. Anterior and middle legs 

 dark fuscous-grey ; posterior legs whitish, tarsi suffused with 

 fuscous-grey at base of joints. Forewings ashy-grey, surface 

 somewhat roughened, thinly and irregularly sprinkled with black 

 scales, which tend to form short longitudinal strigulee ; costa with 

 very short oblique blackish strigulee ; a strong irregular black 

 streak from base to disc above anal angle, posteriorly attenuated, 

 sometimes partially obsolete ; a very slender blackish line from 

 three-quarters of costa very obliquely outwards nearly to hind- 

 margin, thence bent abruptly round to anal angle ; beyond this 

 is sometimes another similar line ; a black spot on disc beyond 

 middle, above the extremity of the basal streak : cilia pale ashy- 

 grey, with a blackish line above base, and three other slender 

 dark-grey lines. Hindwings fuscous-grey, darker on apex and 

 hindmargin ; cilia fuscous-grey. 



The longitudinal black streak from base is generally a good 

 characteristic of this insect. 



The imago is sluggish in habit, and not commonly met with, 

 but I have found two or three specimens at rest near Sydney, in 

 September and January. I bred a number of specimens from 

 the larvre, which were not uncommon in some places in the bush 

 near Sydney, and these all emerged in September, so that 

 January specimens probably belong to a second generation. 



Larva stout, cylindrical, not tapering ; glossy whitish ; head 

 and second segment almost as broad as body, blackish. It feeds 

 in galls on Eucalyptus up. ; the galls are formed on the extremity 

 of young shoots by metamorphosis of the terminal tuft of unex- 

 panded leaves ; they are from one to two inches long, and about 

 half an inch broad, irregular-shaped, resembling an inflated tuft 

 of leaves but solid ; the larvce eat hollow galleries through them, 

 ejecting the excrement through minute holes ; there are generally 



