380 WOOD MOTHS : WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR LIFE-HISTORIES, 



hour can he safely left until the next day. He has bred and 

 captured over 100 specimens of this fine moth, and has succeeded 

 in mounting them very neatly without destroying the remai'kable 

 wrinkled structure of the forewings, which if mounted on an ordi- 

 nary setting-board come out flat and uniform. 



With this he has also sent a specimen of what he considers to 

 be a new species of the genus. It is, however, very much worn 

 and damaged, having been found in the bush dead. In my opinion 

 it is certainly not this moth ; and from the general form of head 

 and thorax might at first sight be easily mistaken for a large 

 cicada. 



EUDOXYLA MACLEAYI, Scott. 



This is the largest species of the genus, specimens in the collec- 

 tion measuring 9| inches across the forewings. 



The forewings are brown, clothed with fine grey down or scales, 

 together with thicker patches of grey and black down, giving the 

 whole of the centre of the wings a mottled appearance ; the hind 

 wings are dark brown. The head, legs and thorax thickly covered 

 with long greyish-brown down; a large black patch rounded in 

 front occupies the centre of the thorax, the central and hind part 

 of it being variegated with grey, somewhat like the markings of 

 a European Death's Head Moth ; the base and apex of the abdom- 

 inal segments are grey ; the six inner segments covered with long 

 thick down of a similar colour to the hind wings. The larva of 

 this species has been watched for four years in the tiunk of a 

 " white mahogany" (^Eucalyptus tereticornis), by Mr. Thornton, 

 who says that its habits are identical with those of E. liturat'i,. 

 He has bred only one specimen out of the timber, as even in the 

 chrysalis state they invariably die very soon after the log is cut ; 

 all his other specimens have been taken after their emergence. 



Cryptophasa irrorata, Lewin. 



This is a rather common grey and brown moth, feeding and 

 breeding in several species of she-oaks {Casuarina) both about 

 Sydney and Newcastle. 



