SOME AUSTRALIAN MOTHS FROM LORD HOWE ISLAND. 



By A. Jefperis Turnee, M.D., F.E.S. 



[Read 25th October, 1922.] 



I have received from the Australian Museum a small parcel of moths taken 

 by Mr. A. Musgrave on Lord Howe Island in December, 1921. They are : — 



1. Utetheisa pulchella Lin. One 2. This cannot be distinguished from pul- 

 chelloides Hmps., which differs only in secondary sexual characters of the d". 



Noctuidae. 



2. Plusia chalcytes Esp. $. 



3. Sericea spectans Gn. 



4. Eumenas salaminia Cram. 



5. Dichromia quinqualis Wlk. ?. 



6. Hypena masurialis Gn. 



7. Hypena sp. unidentified, near subvittaUs Wlk. One unset example. 



Hypsidae. 



8. Nyctemera arnica Wlk. 2 d examples. 



Geometridae. 



9. Xanthorhoe subidaria Gn. d". 



10. Scardamia chrysolina Meyr. 



PyraUdae. 



11. Macalla eoncisella Wlk. {phoenopasta Turn.) 6 d. 2 9. 



12. Hymenia fascialis Cram. 



13. Nansinoe pueritia Cram. 



Psychidae. 



14. Oeeeticus elongatus Lewin. 



As I have demonstrated (Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., 1917, p. 53, and 1918, p. 

 276) Lord Howe Island possesses a truly endemic lepidopterous fauna, but the 

 endemic species are mostly small and inconspicuous, and probably do not occur 

 abundantly in the immediate neighbourhood of the settlement. The present in- 



