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smaller in size than specimens from Sydney. The larvae are 

 tapering posteriorly, of a pale-yellowish-green, and nine roundish 

 blotches in the leaves of Eucalyptus piperita (?) and Eucalyptus 

 eugenioides, on which they are sometimes very abundant. 



Gracilaria tristainje, Turn. 

 I have bred this species also from Eugenia ventenatii. Like 

 the preceding, the antennae are porrected in repose. 

 Brisbane, from September to December. 



Gracilaria ophiodes, Turn. 

 I took four specimens, all larger and finer than the type, on a 

 fence in Warwick, Queensland, in October. 



Gracilaria polyplaca, Loiver. 



Male and female, 10-12 mm. Differs from G. ida, Meyr., as 



follows : Thorax crimson, with two whitish spots posteriorly, 



anterior portion wholly crimson. (In G. ida, thorax is whitish, 

 with median and lateral reddish lines.) Forewings clear crimson, 

 never suffused with grey ; two basal dorsal spots widely separate 

 (in G. ida these are usually, if not always, confluent); first costal 

 streak absent, replaced by two discal spots ; fourth and fifth 

 costal streaks not touching, but separated by a band of ground 

 colour • black margins of fifth, sixth, and seventh costal streaks 

 not reaching to costal edge. 



Closely allied to Gracilaria ida, Meyr., the description of 

 which includes both species, but certainly distinct ; formerly 

 described by nryself as var. rosea. From Gracilaria formosa, 

 Stt. as defined by Meyrick, it may be distinguished by absence- 

 of pale-yellowish suffusion along costa, absence of spot on fold, 

 and by most of the other points mentioned above. 



Brisbane, Queensland ; taken abundantly from August to 

 October, and again in April, attached to Tristania conferta and 

 Tristania suaveolens. G. ida I have always found attached to 

 Eucalyptus piperita (?), G. formosa to Eugenia ventenatii. 



Gracilaria aljbicixcta, n. sp. 

 Male, 8A- mm. Head and thorax pale-ochreous-brown. Maxil- 

 lary palpi ochreous- whitish. Labial palpi ochreous-whitish ; 

 second joint with an apical, terminal joint with a median and 

 subapical dark-fuscous ring. Antenna? longer than forewings, 

 ochreous - whitish, annulated with dark - fuscous. Abdomen 

 ochreous-fuscous; beneath whitish. Legs whitish; apices of 

 ' tarsal joints fuscous ; anterior and middle femora and tibiae and 

 basal half of posterior femora dark-fuscous, mixed with brownish ; 

 middle tibiae much thickened with scales. Forewings reddish 

 ochreous-fuscous, with scattered dark-fuscous scales ; an out 



