288 [November, 1901. 



[Of the moths found dead some are in quite good condition ! This is a 

 Lasiocampid, larger than our Lasiocamjpa quercus, wholly of a shining light red- 

 dish-brown. The curious shrunken dried up larvte have the head shining orange- 

 brown, with the face paler ; and the body red-brown, densely covered with hair of the 

 same colour, that of the lateral and abdominal regions short, but that of the back 

 very long, thick, and sloping a little backwards. The pupa, like that of the last 

 species, is thick and almost ovate, the limb-covers very closely and evenly packed, 

 the antenna-covers short, evenly and regularly barred with the pectinations ; covers 

 of the wings minutely granulated and sculptured with fine irregular cross-lines ; the 

 segments scarcely roughened, but strongly ridged at the edges ; the anal segment 

 completely rounded behind and i-oughened with a broad area of minute prominences ; 

 this portion is nearly black, the general colour dark purple-brown. The cocoon 

 soft, but thick and densely lined with the long hairs of the larva. Spun up at the 

 surface of the ground, and thickly covered with morsels of earth or other debris.'] 



Chilenafuniosa, Hampson, n. sp. — " The caterpillar was very curious, with long 

 spikes of hairs shooting out among shorter hairs ; a handsome creature with long 

 red stripes extending down the back, and along each side from the head to the anal 

 prolegs ; feeding on Mimosa. We only obtained the moth at lighted windows.'' 



[No figure of this larva has reached rae ; but a number of cocoons with empty 

 pupa skins. The pupa is rather cylindrical, the anal segment but little smaller 

 than the rest, and very bluntly rounded, smooth and devoid alike of cremaster and 

 bristles ; the general surface is rather dull from excessively minute granulations 

 rather than any sculpture ; rich purplish-red. The cocoon narrow, fusiform, but 

 with the ends blunt, dirty white, and almost of the texture of tough paper. The 

 eggs barrel-shaped, laid in clusters or strings on the leaflets and leaf stalks of 

 Mimosa.] 



Chilena p7'ompta,Wn\k. — " The larva was found on Mimosa bushes, and fed up 

 on the same. I send a sketch of it. The moth comes occasionally to light at a 

 window in wet weather." 



[The larva as figured is of very striking appearance. The head grey-black, the 

 dorsal region olive-brown, with abundant short tufts of brown and white hairs ; 

 the ventral region grey-black, with the short liairs yellowish-white ; but the striking 

 features are the long tufts, one on each side of the head, long, slender, black, tipped 

 with white, curved, and resembling a pair of antennae ; on the thoracic segment^s two 

 more pairs, thicker and hardly so long, black with white tips, diverging and sur- 

 rounded with thick tufts of white hairs ; just beyond these a pair of white tufts 

 long and oblique; on the ninth segment another pair ; and on the anal segment a 

 long, black, centi-al, oblique tuft, tipped with white, and surrounded by several short 

 tufts ; spiracles brilliantly white. It was found necessary to draw this larva on 

 coloured paper, or the white, which is so conspicuous in it, would not have been 

 brought out. The pupa is very similar to that of the last species ; not quite so 

 cylindrical, its surface more silky, and showing faint traces of powdery dusting ; the 

 anal segment equally round and devoid of structure ; the general surface similarly 

 without sculpture ; but the edges of the segments more ridged. The cocoon 

 whitey-brown, of the same tough papery consistence, but witli a little external loose 

 silk ; attached to a twig of Mimosa]. 



