. Australian insects. Insects. LEPIDOPTERA. 275 and markings are very variable. It has a wide range over Tasmania and tlie eastern coast of the mainland into Queensland; and about Sydney the caterpillars feed upon half a dozen different common native shrubs. French in his Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria Pt. I. 1891 has named and figured one, C. responsana, the "Lighl Brown Apple Moth," as an apple pest in Victoria; this is probably C. postvittana. C. Australasiae is a larger species of a dark brown colour; the fore wings are lightly mottled or marbled. G- lythrodana i
. Australian insects. Insects. LEPIDOPTERA. 275 and markings are very variable. It has a wide range over Tasmania and tlie eastern coast of the mainland into Queensland; and about Sydney the caterpillars feed upon half a dozen different common native shrubs. French in his Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria Pt. I. 1891 has named and figured one, C. responsana, the "Lighl Brown Apple Moth," as an apple pest in Victoria; this is probably C. postvittana. C. Australasiae is a larger species of a dark brown colour; the fore wings are lightly mottled or marbled. G- lythrodana is a smaller, similar coloured moth, but the colouration is finer. Paramorpha aquilina is a tiny, creamy-grey moth not quite % an inch across the. Fig. 140.—Paramorpha aquilina (Meyrick). The Orange-skin Borer. wings: in its native state it frequents damp or marshy ground, flying low among the herbage. The larva is a short, pale green grub that, in several of the orange growing dis- tricts, attacks the ripening oranges; boring through the skin, it feeds upon the pith between the rind and flesh, where it finally pupates and causes the orange to turn yellow and drop oft". The Lucerne Moth, Tortrix glapJiyriana, is a small, dark yellow moth about ^2 ^n inch across the wings; the fore pair are light butt" with a silvery tint, blotched with irregular patches of dark brown. The cater- pillars are dark green with scattered white hairs on the segments; they are a regular pest in lucerne paddocks in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Froggatt, W. W. (Walter Wilson), 1858-; Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS; Tippmann Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS. Sydney, W. Brooks
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