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On Some moths from Melville and Bathurst 

 Islands in the South Australian museum. 



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



[Kead July 9, 1914.] 



Melville and Bathurst Islands form one land-mass, being 

 separated from each other only by a narrow strait, some 125 

 miles long by 50 broad, on the North Australian coast, due 

 north of Port Darwin. About sixty species of moths lately 

 collected on these islands by Mr. W. D. Dodd have been 

 sent to me for examination. On a first glance the close 

 affinity of the fauna with that of Port Darwin, from which 

 locality I have received many specimens collected by Mr. 

 F. P. Dodd and Mr. G. F. Hill, is at once apparent. Among 

 the smaller species are several which I have here described as 

 new, and I give a classified list of all the species and genera 

 that I have identified. The smaller forms are unfortunately 

 in very poor condition for examination, and some of them 

 belong to groups with whose structure I am as yet little con- 

 versant, and these have had to be omitted from my list. All 

 the species are from Melville Island, with the exception of 

 Nos. 19, 28, 47, and 49, which are from Bathurst Island. 

 Nos. 26, 30, and 54 are from both islands. All the types 

 with one exception are in the South Australian Museum. 



Lepidoptera from Melville and Bathurst Islands. 



ARCTIAD^ : — Nolin^e — 1, Nola, sp. ; Lithosia:nle — 



2, Lambula pristina, Wlk. ( = iridescens, Luc); Arctian^e — 



3, Rhodogastria timiolis, Turn., M.S. (this species will be 

 published shortly). 



AGAMSTID^E : — 4, Idalima metasticta, Hmps. 



NOCTUIDiE : — Catocalin^: — 5, Donuca lanipes, Butl. ; 



6, A chcea Janata, Lin. ( = melicerta, Drury) ; Erastrian^s — 



7, Eublemma dimidialis, Fab. ( = secta, Su.). 



LYMANTMADiE : — Asotisle — 8, Argina cribraria, 

 Clerck. ; Lymantriaisle — 9, Euproctis epaxia, Turn. 

 SPHINGID^:— 10, Herse convolvuli, Lin. 



GEOMETRID^E: — Acidalian^: — 11, Xenocentris pilo- 

 sata, Warr. ; 12, Acidalia tenuipes, n. sp. ; Geometrin^e — 

 13, Prasinocyma albicosta, Wlk. ; 14, Euschema fenestrata, 

 Swains., Port Darwin form; Monocteniaisle — 15, Epidesmia 



