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ticularly eloping back ; all the body below the subdorsal region orange-red, and 

 covered with tufts of similar and darker hairs ; legs and prolegs grey-black. Pupa 

 dark red ; the limb-covers compact ; the antenna-covers much thickened and con- 

 spicuous, but only very faintly cross-barred ; wing-covers rather dull, covered with 

 minute cross- wrinkling, and showing the nervures in regular depressed lines ; dorsal 

 and abdominal segments only moderately glossy, covered with sculpture of shallow 

 pitting and wrinkles, but having a raised smooth band at the back of each ; anal 

 segment very fully rounded, the cremaster only indicated by a mass of fine, short, 

 erect bristles covering the extremity. Cocoon thin, but extremely tough, whitish- 

 brown, spun up among dead leaves or grass.] 



Trabela ochroleuca, Feld. — " This is a moth that I have several times tried to 

 rear — singly. Did I not send you a dead larva ? Spencer brought me the first, and 

 found out its food ; then seeing that I was interested brought me several more. 

 Then we hunted together and found a fair number. They had been casting their 

 skins, for we found several of tliese on plants on the ground. I do not think that I 

 ever caught the moth ; it is a handsome creamy-looking creature. I am sending a 

 little sketch of the larva." 



[Tliis is a very softly beautiful species, not unlike Odonestin potatoria in both 

 sexes, though the male is of the pale creamy yellow-bi'own of the female, and 

 beautifully rippled with a deeper shade. The larva is very handsome, pale ochreous- 

 brown or orange-brown ; the dorsal portion covered with thick tufts of soft silky 

 white or yellow-white hairs, which lie back and up toward the dorsal ridge ; the 

 sides ornamented with tufts of much longer white hairs, depressed and lying closely 

 together in silky masses, except on the thoracic segments, where they are more 

 raised, longer, and stand out in all directions ; head rounded, grey ; second segment 

 barred with a chocolate line, third and fourth most conspicuously with broad 

 blotched chocolate bands, and a smaller similar bar crosses the back of the anal 

 extremity. The pupa is very thick, almost ovate, the limb-covers smooth and 

 compact, glossy ; the antenna-covers also glossy, faintly cross-ribbed ; wing-covers 

 dull, with abundant cross-wrinkles, which are thickly sculptured with minute 

 roughnesses : the nervures visible, rather raised ; segments glossy, the dorsal much 

 dotted with minute pitting, the abdominal thinly furnished with fine prostrate short 

 hairs, which are scattered generally and not placed in tufts. Whole surface light 

 chestnut-red, except the anal segment which is darker, very bluntly rounded, 

 showing hardly any sign of a cremaster, but furnished with short hooked bristles 

 in a broad mass. Cocoon tough, composed of loose whitey-brown silk, and not very 

 opaque ; spun up among leaves or rubbisli.] 



Phyllalia concolor. Walk. — " These moths were, most of them, found dead along 

 the road to Nggeleni. It was very curious ; there had been a sharp wind, and as we 

 came driving over a hill-top Edwai'd said, ' There is one of those moths.' I jumped 

 out and picked it up, dead, from the middle of the road ; then we spied another • 

 then we looked about sharply, and saw them in the thin trodden grass, or more 

 often on the footpath along the side of the road. One which I found in the "rass 

 was alive but sluggish. We only found them on one side of a long hill, though we 

 looked carefully. We have also found larvae, and I have reared two and send them 

 with their cocoons, and some dead and dried caterpillars." 



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