Dec., 1923 
The Queensland Naturalist. 
55 
NOTES ON A NEW SPECIES OF MOTH. 
Fam: Schoenobiadae. 
(By 11. 
In Au^‘nst, 1921, pai-l ot* a .small tree — Capparis nobiliw 
— was trimmed doAVJi to a single stem, and in the pares 
left on the ground, a feA\' days' after cutting oft’ small 
holes were noted with a quantity of sawdust issuings 
therefrom. These holes were thought at the time to be 
caused by Coleo])ttu‘ous larvae, but as one of the larvae 
ceased casting out sawdust and spun a wel> of bright 
yellowish silk, greenish-tinged, it was evidently 
lepidopterous in eharaetm*. Tlu' parts con- 
taining thes(‘ A\'tM’e saA\'n ofi and carefull}' 
stowed awa\' to await developnumt. Late in. 
f)ctober a perfect niotli emerged, and one of strange a])- 
pearanee. A solitary larva found in t)art of tlie tree left 
standing was enclosed Avith mos(|uito-net. fixed bag-like 
round the stem by a pituu' of wire, and thus an additional 
specimen was secured. In all. ptu’hapjs a dozen good 
moths were obtained, but only otu’ proved male, and 
thiSj though similarly marked to tlie females, Avas miieh. 
smaller, but may not lx* a proof tliat such is generally so. 
I arvae and |uii)ae Aveiu* also l)oltled, but the spirit ( il it 
were such) into which they Avere put failed to preserve 
rhem, and left nothing but a mass of matter. 
These moths AV(*re submitted to i)r. Turner. avIio 
found them to !)e a lunv s])eci(*s of a curious genus called 
8typhloie])[s. by Sir Geo. Hampson. Dr. Turner haS' 
named and described tliis spiuucs 8. hy’pci'incgas, togo'ther 
with another, , smaller. obtain<*d at Emerald by Mr. Bar- 
nard, as 8. peribarys. Jh* also noted three others from 
other parts of Australia, om* oj‘ A\ducli he had previously 
named 8. agenor, the otlier two having been ih-eribed by 
the founder of the genus. 
As regards the full life histories of tlu'se internal 
feeding insects, it is not j)ossible, in my experience, to 
folloAv^ them. We knoAv the last larval, the pu]>a!. and 
imaginal instars, but cannot see those of the preceding 
instarSj nor do we knoAv Iioav many eedyses there are, or 
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