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New Australian Lepidoptera of the Family 

 tortricidae. 



By A. Jefferis Turner, M.D., F.E.S. 

 [Read October 12, 1916.] 



When Mr. Meyrick undertook his revision of the 

 Australian Tortricina, since published in the Proceedings of 

 the Linnean Society of New South Wales for 1910 and 1911 r 

 I sent to him for determination every species in my collection 

 of which I had two or more examples. There remained a 

 number of unique examples, and these, together with more 

 recent captures, form the subject of the present paper. All 

 the types, with the exception of those otherwise specified, 

 are in my own collection. 



Mr. Meyrick' s papers form an admirable groundwork for 

 the study of this group. The genera are well characterized, 

 and with proper care there is no great difficulty in their 

 discrimination, but the species of this family will always 

 prove a difficult study, owing to their general uniformity of 

 pattern, together with a frequent puzzling extent of variation. 



Family TORTRICIDAE. 

 Subfamily CARPOSININAE. 



BONDIA NIGELLA. 



Bondia nigella, Newm. : Tr. E. S. (n. s.), iii., 289; Meyr. : 

 P. L. 8. N.-S. Wales, 1882, p. 182. 



Mr. W. W. Froggatt has sent me two female examples 

 from Moruya, New South Wales, with the note that they 

 were bred from larvae found in plum-root galls. 



Carposina smaragdias, n. sp. ((r/ma^aySos, emerald). 



9, 31 mm. Head brown mixed with whitish; face 

 whitish. Palpi very long (5), terminal joint | second; 

 brownish. Antennae brown. Thorax bright-green, anterior 

 margin, a transverse median line, a second line behind this,, 

 a posterior spot, and some scattered scales on patagia brown. 

 Abdomen pale-brown. Legs brown-whitish ; anterior pair 

 brown, with pale annulations on tarsi. Forewings strongly 

 dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched at base, thence nearly 

 straight, apex rounded, termen slightly oblique, nearly 

 straight, rounded towards tornus ; bright-green, with scanty 



