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3. Heliodines sexpunctella, sp. n. 
Antenne, grayish fuscous. 
Palpi, sabocherous. 
Head and face, shining gray. 
Thorax, shining gray; grayish fuscous beneath. 
Fore wings, bright orange, the costal and dorsal margins tinged with fuscous on the 
basal half; with 6 shining, metallic, grayish-bronze spots, 3 costal and 3 dorsal, 
the former preceding the latter in each case; a little beyond the outer costal 
spot a shining, grayish-bronze metallic band, internally dark-margined, passes 
along the costa and around the apex, reaching to the outer dorsal spot at the 
anal angle; cilia gray. The metallic spots are internally dark-margined, but 
this is only visible in certain lights. Under side grayish fuscous. 
Hind wings, bronzy-brownish; cilia gray. 
Abdomen, grayish fuscous. 
Legs, pale grayish fuscous, obscurely banded with subocherous at the spurs. 
Exp. al.: 10mm. 
Hab: Arizona. (Morrison.) 
Type 29 Mus. Wism. 
This species differs from bella, Chamb., in the absence of a basal spot or streak, in 
the number of spots and in the color of the under side of the thorax. 
4. Heliodines extraneella, Wlsm. 
Heliodines extraneeila, Wism. Pr. Zodl. Soc, Lond., 1881. 323-4. Pl. xxxvi, 15. 
Imago. July 23. (Wlsm. ) 
Hab: California—Pitt River (Shasta Co. Wlsm). 
Type Mus. Wlsm. 
5. Heliodines unipunctella, sp. n. 
Antenne, palpi, head and face gray. 
Thorax, gray (Slightly darker than the fore wings). Underside gray. 
Fore wings, shining gray, with a single bright orange quadrate spot before the mid- 
dle of the costa. Thisis margined by a few fuscous scales at the base are some 
scattered orange scales above and below the fold, indicating the possible pres- 
ence of a more ornate basal patch in finer specimens. Underside, grayish fus- 
cous. 
Hind wings, shining gray, with gray cilia. Under side, grayish fuscous. 
Abdomen shining gray, with a broad orange band occupying several segments below 
the middle. Under side, gray. 
- Legs, gray. 
Exp. al.: 12 mm. 
‘Hab: California—Los Angeles (Osten Sacken 1878). 
Type g Mus. Wism. 
This species is described from a single specimen in the Zeller collection. 
SUGAR-CANE INSECTS IN NEW SOUTH WALES. 
By ALBERT KOEBELE, Special Agent. 
During the month of January, 1891, | had the pleasure of traveling 
with Mr. Rudolph Helms, chemist to the Colonial Sugar Company, 
through their sugar-cane fields from the Clarence to the Tweed River, 
