TEANSACTIONS. 
§oci£t|) cf ^tieenslanb. 
THE GENUS ANTHERMA AS ILLUSTRATING 
FACTS OPPOSING DARWINISM. 
BY 
Thomas P. Lucas, M.R.C.S.E., L.S.A. Lox., Ac., <fec. 
(Read on 3rd March, 1892). 
THE WHISTLING MOTH. 
BY 
Henry Tryon. 
(Read on 7th April, 1892). 
The habit of producing sound is met with in but few kinds 
of lepidopterous insects, and quite rarely is this sound of the 
nature of stridulation. And this being so the fact that a small, 
but select, series of Buderim Mountain insects brought last 
year to the Queensland Museum by Mr. W. Eiebe, contained — 
as their donor pointed out— a sound-producing moth, was not 
without interest. This insect was afterwards recognised by the 
writer as being Hecatesia fenestrata, Boisduval (Fam. Zygse- 
nidfe), from acquaintance with the figures of this and the allied 
species H. thyridion, Feisthamel, in Appendix F. (by Adam 
White) to Sir George Grey’s “Journals of Two Expeditions of 
Discovery in North-west and West Australia.” It would appear 
that even prior to 1841, the date of publication of this work, 
