202 



Townsville, Queensland, in November and December ; two 

 specimens received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. who bred them from 

 larva3 found in stems of M elaleiwa leucodendron. He infomis- 

 me that the sipecimens are rather small examples. 



Xyleutes zophoplecta, m sp. 



Male, 42 mm. Head, thorax, and antennae dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen dark grey- Fore wing narrow-elongate, costa 



slightly arched, aipex rounded, hindmargin very obliquely 

 rounded; dark grey; apical half suffused towards costa with 

 whitish-grey; the whole disc closely strigidated \vith black, 

 strigulse coarse towards base, very fine over suffused area ; a 

 few whitish-grey scales along lower part of hindmargin ; cilia 

 fuscous with a few whitish-scales. Hindwings and cilia dark 

 grey. 



Townsville. Queensland, in December : one specimen re- 

 ceived from Mr. F. F. Dbdd. 



trypaxid:*:. 



DUDGEONA ACTINIAS. U. Sp. 



Male and female, 31-43 mm. Head and thorax dark red- 

 dish-brown ; apices of tegulse ochreous ; thorax: with a large 

 bifid posterior crest. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs 

 whitish-ochreous ; anterior and middle tibite mostly dark red- 

 dish-brown. Forewangs elongate-oblong, posteriorly dilated, 

 costa slightly arched, apex rounded, hindmargin scarcely ob- 

 lique, rounded beneath ; dark reddish-brown ; towards costa, 

 hindmargin, and base of inner-margin paler and interrupted 

 by numerous small ochreous spots ; a cluster of five to nine 

 shining snow white rounded spots on inner-marginal part of 

 basal third of disc; a series of four or five similar spots of un- 

 equal sizes along hindmargin ; (preceded by three or four simi- 

 lar spots in central part of hindmarginal area ; cilia dark red- 

 dish-brown. Hindwings elongate-ovate, hindmargin slightly 

 rounded ; pale ochreous. partly suffused with brownish ; cilia 

 whitish-ochreous. 



This magnificent species appears to agree in structural cha- 

 racters with Hampson's genus Dudgeona, of which I was able to 

 examine the type, an Indian species, in the British Museum. 

 It certainly suggests a relationship to the Tortricina. 



Towns\^lle, Queensland, in December ; several specimens re- 

 ceived from Mr. F. P. Dodd, who states that the larvae have 

 the habits of Xyleutes^. Like that genus, the pupa has to 

 break through a thin covering of bark, and then iprotrudes 

 while the moth emerges. 



