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Further Notes on Some moths from Lord Howe 

 and Norfolk Islands in the South Australian 

 Museum." 



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

 [Read October 1C, 1918.] 



A preliminary note on some moths taken by Mr. A. M. 

 Lea on these islands appears in these Transactions (vol. xli. r 

 1917). My departure to England prevented me from dealing 

 with them more thoroughly at the time, but has enabled 

 me to obtain valuable help from Mr. Edw. Meyrick, F.R.S., 

 Sir Geo. Hampson, and Mr. L. B. Prout in determining 

 some of them. Some corrections will be made in the former 

 lists, all new species described, where this can be done, and 

 the relationships of the fauna in each case will be discussed. 



At first sight the collections appeared disappointing, for 

 they consisted mainly of well-known and widely distributed 

 species; but a closer examination showed the presence of a 

 considerable percentage of new species, for the most part 

 small and inconspicuous, but of great interest. It must be 

 remembered that Mr. Lea was mainly bent on collecting" 

 Coleoptera, and that the moths obtained were chance cap- 

 tures, including a large proportion taken at light. The latter 

 might be expected to consist mainly of species feeding on 

 common weeds and garden plants, for the most part not 

 endemic, and some at least artificially introduced. The col- 

 lections, however, establish the existence on each island of 

 an endemic lepidopterous fauna, and there can be no doubt 

 that by systematic collecting many interesting species would 

 be added to the list. 



Lord Howe Island. 



Corrections and additions to former list : — 



Arctiadae — For n. geri.(^) et. sp. (page 53) substitute 

 Ilema, n. sp. 



Geometridae — For Boarmia inflexaria, Snel. (page 53), 

 substitute Cleora inflexaria, Snel. For Cidaria(l) . sp. (page 

 53), substitute Xanthorhoe(l) n. sp. 



Tineidae — Hyponomeuta, sp., is referable to paurodes, 

 Meyr., previously known only from Queensland. Add two new 

 species of Blastobasis and one of a new genus Eretmobela. 



The following species, six in number, were taken on 

 the island several years ago, and presented to me by Mr. 

 G. A. Waterhouse; not one of them is endemic. 



