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digo, Victoria, some years ago, ami it eventually killed them all. 

 I used to hunt for the moths after finding the empty pupa cases, 

 and I have a specimen over 25 years old. Professor McCoy con- 

 siders that E. eucalypti, finding its bore below the surface of the 

 earth, breaks through the root and prolongs the cocoon, which is 

 otherwise confined to the hollow in the wood ; but Mr. Thornton 

 says that the larva of the reddish variety always lives on the 

 roots, itnd that the smaller darker one is never found out of the 

 trunk or branches. 



EUDOXYLA LITURATA. 



This fine moth measures from 7 to 8 inches across the wings ; 

 its forewings, head, thorax, legs and tip of abdomen are light 

 brown densely clothed with fine grey scales; a narrow black band 

 forms an elongated V between the forewing in the centre of the 

 thorax (this is sometimes rounded in front and often rather indis- 

 tinct in ])laces). Hind wings reddish-brown, the basal portion of 

 the abdomen clothed with reddish down thickest on the sides. A 

 male moth in the collection is not more than one-third this size, 

 but the markings and coloration are the same. 



The larva is found in the stems of several Eucalypts, but it 

 shows a marked preference for that of E. resinifera, locally known 

 as the " Grey Gum." The moth after leaving her chrysalid shell 

 is generally found upon the trunk of the tree close to the ground ; 

 her eggs are laid in a scattered ring upon the bark, the young 

 larva? boring inwards soon after they are hatched. The larva 

 forms no web over the entrance of its bore, like Leto stacyi; and 

 though eating out an irregular oval cavity in the bark does not eat 

 the outer surface of it away, leaving it a thin wall, which eventu- 

 ally dries up and falls away. The small hole by which it first 

 entered is left open, and from it the castings formed in the bore 

 are ejected. 



The larva bores upwards as soon as the transverse tunnel 

 reaches the centre of the stem, and it remains feeding in this 



