54 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



costal streak; a very fine almost obsolete line from fifth costal 

 streak nearly to termen, whence it is continued as a well-marked 

 dark fuscous line three times acutely dentate on veins to dorsum 

 at 4, and prolonged along dorsum towards base; cilia grey, inter- 

 rupted by whitish opposite veins. Hindwings with termen gently 

 rounded; white; a pale fuscous suffusion on costa to apex; a 

 blackish triangular or roundish blotch at tornus; cilia grey, on 

 tornal blotch blackish. 



N.Q. Townsville, from March to June; five bred specimens 

 received from Mr. Dodd. 



This species very closely resembles Pheosia striijata, Moore, 

 from India, which is doubtless congeneric. In the present species 

 the thorax is grey; in sfrigata the thoracic white dots do not 

 appear to be developed and the costal streaks on forewing are 

 less oblique. 



The larva, I am informed, feeds on a species of Terminalia\ 

 it is green with brown markings, and has four pairs of claspers 

 and a backwardly curved dorsal protuberance on the third thoracic 

 segment. The terminal abdominal segments are turned right 

 over the back, their under surface, wdiich is uppermost, is flattened 

 and shaped something like a leaf. The larva spins a hard nut- 

 like cocoon, and the head end of the pupa is provided with a 

 terminal spike. Mr. Dodd has sent me a specimen of this extra- 

 ordinary larva and one of the pupa preserved in spirit. 



Gen. 6. C e r u R A. 



[Apparently from Kr)p6s wax, and ovpa a tail; probably in allusion 

 to the pink protrusible filaments of the larva.] 



Cerura^ Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii. pt. ii. p. 155. 



Head rough-haired. Eyes naked. Tongue weak. Palpi short; 

 porrect, clothed with long hairs; terminal Joint concealed. 

 Antennae with basal joint covered with long hairs, pectinated 

 to apex in both sexes. Posterior tibite without middle spurs. 

 Fore wings with retinaculum bar-shaped in male, vein 2 from 4, 

 3 from angle, 5 from near upper angle, 6 from end of areole, 10 



