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it ratlier resembles. The larva is remarkable for the inordinate length of its dorsal 

 hairs, which slope backwards. Except for this it is rather like our common " woolly 

 bear." When young the body is black-brown, with the hairs pale brown, but when 

 full grown the dorsal hairs become black, those of the lower part of the body red ; 

 beneath the long hairs the segments are starred with i*ows of raised spots, from 

 which spring tufts of very short radiating hairs ; similar tufts with the bristles 

 pointing doivnwards are placed at the sides of the prolegs. The head when full 

 grown is shining chestnut-red, when younger orange-red, with two diverging black 

 lines down the face. Pupa shining red-brown ; in a loose open cocoon of silken 

 threads.] 



Braura ligniclusa, Walk. — " We have found the moth sitting under verandah 

 thatch, on stone, on outbuildings, and on rough wood, which it closely resembles. 

 One caterpillar was found under an old sack which had been laid for the horses to feed 

 on, so that the mealies should not be mixed up with dust and gravel. The wonder 

 was that the fowls had not spied it ! Another was under some loose gum-tree bark 

 which was pulled off for firing ; and it spun up at once under its piece of bark. I 

 do not know upon what it feeds, as both were ready to spin. A third was found in 

 a bit of old " eotton-blanket," such as tlie red-clay people wear, stuck away in a 

 thorn bush in the shrubbery. When tliis was pulled out to be burned the cocoon 

 was found in its folds." 



[This is a fine moth, allied to Gaatrofaclia, and having a beautiful resemblance 

 to bi'own bark. The larva figured is large and handsome, blackish-brown with a 

 broad whitish dorsal stripe extending to the subdorsal region and enclosing a dorsal 

 row of red spots, but all somewhat concealed by abundant tufts of moderately long 

 black and brown hairs ; head pale grey-brown. Pupa long-ovate, the limb-covers 

 very compact, and, with the wing-covers, dull from a frosting of abundant minute sculp- 

 ture of roughnesses without definite form ; antenna-covers short, beautifully cross- 

 ribbed ; these portions all dull chocolate ; dorsal and abdominal segments pitchy- 

 brown, rather glossy, but finely sculptured with minute pitting and cross wrinkling ; 

 anal segment rounded off, the cremaster not protruding, but covered with a thick 

 stubble of fine bristles. In a tough and strong, but not thick, cocoon of a dark 

 grey-brown colour, attached to bark or some other thick object.] 



Lenodora niontana, Stoll. — " Reared from a caterpillar which I found on a 

 sunny morning at Nggeleni. I found two, attracted to them by beautiful coral-red 

 spots along the body, which on close inspection I found were parasites ; however, I 

 tried to rear them, and one fed up on wild Pelargonium, cast its skin and parasites, 

 and became a fine caterpillar. It was quite a pet of mine with its little briglit face ! 

 Another was found on the same food in the side garden." 



[This is a robust species, though not more than a)i inch and a half in expanse 

 of wings ; these being short, broad, and rounded, black-brown, with a great semi- 

 transparent white blotch occupying the middle portion of each ; the body densely 

 covered with long scales, and having a very long anal tuft. The head of the larva 

 is glossy black, except a sharply white triangle occupying the space between the 

 lobes, and a yellow mouth ; the dorsal portion of the body is black, and abundantly 

 furnished with tufts of long black and white hairs spreading abroad and more par- 



