189 



by many species of Xyloryctidce.. When pupating the larva, 

 however, reverts to its pyralid habits, for it quits its tunnel and 

 spins a loose cocoon in the mass at its mouth. 



LIMACODID^. 



DORATIFERA STENORA, n. Sp. 



Male and female, 26-30 mm. Head brown; in female suf- 

 fused with whitish-ochreous ; a patch of whitish-ochreous 

 scales beneath roots of antennse. Palpi brown. An- 

 tennae brown-whitish. Thorax brown; in female with some 

 central reddish-orange hairs. Abdomen brownish with a dor- 

 sal reddish-orange line, most developed in female. Legs 

 brown. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa straight, apex 

 round-pointed, termen rounded, strongly oblique ; dull fuscous- 

 brown or reddish-brown ; an oblique whitish streak from apex 

 towards mid-dor sum, becoming lost in disc ; cilia brown. Hind- 

 wings with termen rounded; brown; cilia brown. 



Rockhampton, Queensland; two specimens in the Queens- 

 land Museum. 



DORATIFERA CHRYSOCHROA, Feld. 



{Lam/proleiois chrysochroa, Feld., pi. Ixxxii., f. 13 ; Doratifera 

 ■ euchrysa, Low., Trans. Roy. Soc, S.A., 1896, p. 152.) 



1 have received a fine series of this beautiful insect from 

 Mr. F. P. Dodd, who found the larvae at Townsville feeding 

 gregariously on Carey a australis and other trees. 



Apodecta, n. g. 



Face with rounded anterior cone of scales. Palpi stout, 

 rather long (twice breadth of eye), porrect ; terminal joint very 

 short. Antennae of male bipectinated on basal half. Pos- 

 terior tibiae with two pairs of well-developed spurs. Fore- 

 wings with vein 2 from two-thirds, 3 from before angle, 4 

 from angle, 6 from middle of cell, 7 shorl>stalked with 8, 9, 10 

 absent. Hindwings with 3, 4, and 5 remote at base, 6, 7, 

 stalked. 



Characterised by the absence of vein 10 of forewings. 



Apodecta monodisca, n. sp. 

 Male, 16 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen white, tinged 

 with grey. Palpi whitish, with a^ few dark fuscous scales. 

 Antennae ochreous-whitish. Legs whitish mixed with dark 

 fuscous. Forewings broadly triangular, costa slightly arched, 

 apex rounded, termen rounded, oblique ; grey with a very 

 few scattered dark fuscous scales; a squarish white spot 

 beneath mid-costa, its lower anterior angle connected by a 



