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ON A SPECIES OF THE PHASMATIDiE, 



more or less wholly obsolete, represented only by a few coarse 

 scattered dark fuscous scales. The species is however a good and 

 distinct one, separated, as indicated above, from its nearest allies 

 by the darker hindwings. 



Arotrophora xythopterana. 

 Larva moderately stout, cylindrical, rather tapering posteriorly ; 

 dull bluish-grey-green, spots darker ; head and second segment 

 black. It feeds in a short stiff silken tube amongst leaves of 

 Lomatia silaifolia (Protectee), discolouring them conspicuously. 

 Pupa in a firm silken cocoon covered with refuse, within the end 

 of the tube. 



The larvae were found in July, and I bred two imagos (male 

 and female) at the beginning of August. 



On A SPECIES OF THE PlIASMATID/E DESTRUCTIVE TO EUCALYPTI. 



By AVilliam Macleay, F.L.S. 

 At a meeting of this Society last month, Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, 

 the Government Geologist, exhibited three specimens of a Phasma 

 which he had obtained a week or two previously in the vicinity 

 of the Binda Caves, in the county of Westmoreland. He informed 

 the meeting that he had found these insects in amazing numbers 

 in that locality ; that the trees for miles around were completely 

 denuded of leaves, and that the dead and dying insects were lying 

 beneath the trees almost in heaps. 



The occurrence of a Phasma in such numbers is a very remark- 

 able fact, and perfectly new as far as my experience goes. I 

 judge also from observations made at the time of Mr. Wilkinson's 

 announcement by the members present that all were equally 

 struck with the unusual character of the occurrence. The 

 PhasmidoB or Phasmatida as they are now more properly called, 

 are, as we know, all leaf-eaters, and it is rare in any part of the 



