BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 12& 



deeply ciliated on the posterior border. Costal deep brown, thickly 

 scaled, and having a yellowish-white spot at the junction with the 

 second longitudinal vein. First and second longitudinal veins 

 pale brown, the former short and close to the costa ; third longi- 

 tudinal very pale. (Description drawn from fresh specimens). 



Larva. 



Size of body... 01 20 x 0-035 inch ... 3-04 x 088 millimetres. 

 Breast-bone.... 12 ... 0-30 



Oblong, bright saffron-yellow, glabrous, minutely granulate. 

 Head distinct, retractile, with two very short pale yellowish 

 antenna? near the tip. Breast-bone deep reddish-brown, visible 

 for the whole of its length, of almost uniform width, exsei'ted 

 anteriorly for less than one-sixth of its length, with four triangular 

 projectiions, the middle pair in advance of the lateral ones ; poste- 

 rior portion somewhat diaphanous. Stigmata very indistinct. 



Inhabiting grass-stems, generally that portion underneath the 

 spathe. The deformation caused is a scarcely perceptible swelling, 

 extending from an inch to an inch and a-half in length, and 

 containing from ten to a dozen larvae, lying somewhat obliquely, 

 enveloped in delicate white tilmy cocoons. These larvae have as 

 yet only been found in a species of grass in the Parkes district, 

 wliere they prove very destructive to the i)asture. 



Pujta. 



Size of body... 0080 x 0-040 inch ... 2-02 x 101 millimetres. 



Oblong, pale, ochraceous-brown, obvolute ; head bitid in front ; 

 thorax somewhat gi)>bose, nitidous, paler than the alxlomen ; 

 abdouien minutely graiiuhite, witliout .spines. 



Imagines began to emerge on tlie 5th December. 



B. Wings vrilhout a white spot on tlu; anterior border. 



81. Lasiopiera aurata, sp.n. 



(J. — Length of antennu' — inch ... millimetres. 



Expanse of wings OlGOxOOGO ... 4'OG x 1 .'34 



Sizuoflxxly 0130x003r) ... 3 29x0-88 



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