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being of an obscure greyish-brown tinged with green, and havang 

 the head dark brown, the tubercles, both dorsal and lateral, 

 brownish-black, and the last abdominal segment (that bearing the 

 anal claspers) ochreous. In form it is more attenuated and less 

 robust. My observations go to show that throughout the life of the 

 animal its tendency is to increase in width, the adult larva being 

 proportionately of greater girth, and capable of less extension 

 than the young. In its fully grown state, particularly when 

 about to change to the pupa, it bears a striking resemblance to 

 the larvfi of certain Saw-flies or Tenthredinida?, many of which, 

 like the moth under consideration, are internal feeders, but this 

 likeness is only superficial, as the number of t4ie feet, and the 

 position of the spiracles, clearly indicate its lepidopterous nature ; 

 and I may add its general structure accords with what we know 

 of the larvae of the family Phycifeida'. 



The pupa or chrysalis is reddish-brown, and is enclosed in an 

 elongate tough cocoon, composed of coarse grey silk. Usually 

 the cocoon is placed at the entrance to the burrow in which the 

 larva has lived, but sometimes it is found attached to the stem of 

 the food-plant. In no case did I observe them upon the leaves, 

 although in a few instances I saw three or four cocoons spun 

 together in a mass and attached to a twig ; in every instance, 

 however, they were found near the Ijurrows from which the larvic 

 had made their escape. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE II. 



Fig. 1. Epicrocis terebrans, Olliff c? ■ 



„ 2. Outline of same showing- natural size. 



„ 3. Venation of same. Forewing 11 veins; hindwing 9 veins. 



„ 4. Larva of same about two-thirds grown. 



,, 5. Larva of same about to pupate. 



„ 6. Pupa of same, and portion of cocoon. 



„ 7, 8, and 9. Stems or "leaders" of Red Cedar showing borings 

 of larvee, cocoons, and pupa in situ. 



NOTE ON PIEZORHYNCHUS LEUCOTIS, GOULD, 



PYCNOFTILUS FLOCCOSUS, GOULD, AND OTHERS 



RARE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 



By E. p. Ramsay. 



Piezorhynchus leucotis has hitherto been recorded only from 

 Queensland and northwards therefrom, but I have recently had an 

 opportunity of examining a fresh specimen shot in a dense part 

 of a damp scrubby gully in one of the gorges of the Blue 



