200 C. B. HARDENBERG. 



shagreened dorsal ly. Cremaster consists of two small slender 

 hooks, rather widely spaced at the base, and this base 

 set off dorsally from the remainder of the segment. On the 

 ventral side we find the anal leg-scars large, triangular, 

 flanked at their cephalic parts by two flattened, elliptical 

 lobes, directed latero-anteriorly, and in front of these, two 

 small, smooth, round papillee (text-fig. 17, h, i). 



The thoracic segments carry a dorsal median carina and 

 are transversely striated dorsally. 



The Adult. — The male has been described by Janse 

 as expanding 15 to 16 mm. with "head, thorax and 

 abdomen above and underneath rather thinly covered with 

 avellaneous (XLY) hairs, antennae and the long branches 

 blackish-brown (XLV), Avings subhyaline, sparsely but regu- 

 larly covered with avellaneous hairs on the upper and under 

 side." 



The female, judging from the remains of the pupa, is wing- 

 less, but we have not yet been able to obtain a specimen for 

 description. 



Of the habits of this species nothing is known. As the 

 male has been captured at light the species is probably 

 crepuscular or nocturnal in its habits. 



The dates of capture of the males extend from January 

 4th to 24th, while the writer found a male pupa at the 

 beginning of February. The imago had not emerged at the 

 beginning of March, so that there is apparently a long flying 

 season, and, presumably, only one brood a year. 



The species is, for the present at least, not of economic 

 importance. Parasites and predaceous enemies unknown. 



7. Gribson's Bagworm (Manatha sp.) PI. XIII, 

 fig. 16. 



Fig. 16, PI. XIII, shows a number of the bags of this species 

 attached to a twig of Black Wattle (Acacia mollissima 

 Wild.). All are fastened by means of a thick strand of silk 

 usually about half as long as the bag. The exact locality «f 

 the specimens figured is unknown to me. Presumably they 



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