140 [June, 



[This is a very handsome Arrtiid, three inches in expanse, antennae long, black, 

 pectinated in the male; thorax and abdomen stout, rioli yellow, with a few scattered 

 black dots ; fore-wings long, the edge of the basal portion twice angulated, forming 

 u sort of large epaulet patch, rich yellow with numerous black dots, and extended 

 on the costa ; the hinder area cut off by a sharp division of the colour; pale or 

 dark purplisli-brown, with paler lines on all the nervures ; hind-wings yellow. 

 Pupa rather cylindrical, pitchy-brown witli a most brilliant gloss, and almost totally 

 without sculpture; anal extremity tliick and very much rounded; crenmster a 

 minute point. In a rather tliin but strong silken cocoon, either covered with sand 

 or attached to debris on the ground]. 



Po/t/mo'ia modes/a, Felder. — " Tliis was a very interesting larva, but was found 

 at a lime when I was quite unable to paint its portrait, so I made a pen and ink 

 sketch on a label. It was a liairy larva of a dull brown, with a black dorsal stripe 

 and pink legs; face orange-brown ; on each side from the back of the head a long 

 slender tuft of hairs ; on the back a series of lighter dots. It was found on a river- 

 side climbing-plant having serrated leaflets. Tliis, the natives say, will sting if you 

 gather it ! " 



[Tliis Arctiid has a curious male ; its broad black-brown fore-wings have upon 

 them a vei-y striking and conspicuous vi\\'\te figure 4 and beyond it a white tiMusverse 

 line ; hind- wings white, with a grey border. The female is decidely larger, its fore- 

 wings reddish-brown, with several white spots on the base and dorsal margin, and 

 a larger white dash near the middle of the wing- but no appearance of the figure 4 ; 

 hind-wings pale reddish-yellow.] 



Metarctia rufescens, Walk. — " This I have great pleasure in sending. I painted 

 its larva last season and then it died. Another was found among rubbish, and it 

 pined away and died. The one which produced this moth was picked up by E. on 

 a very rainy day, in the house. I found that it ate the juicy creeper from the 

 veranda, which has a purple shade underneath the leaf {Tradescantia !). It is a 

 rapid traveller and likes to hide among dead leaves under a hedge." 



[The larva figured is rather elongated, head and body umbreous-brown, 

 with obscui'c darker spots, the dorsul surface thickly covered with extremely long 

 black hairs which curve somewhat backwards; on each side is a row of brown 

 spots with short hairs, radiating so as to produce a star-like appearance ; above the 

 legs are other such spots with conspicuous radiating hairs ; legs black. The pupa 

 is stout, shining red-brown, in a loose cocoon, which is composed of the long hairs 

 of the larva, united with a little silk, and placed in the curve of a dead leaf on the 

 ground. The moth — an Arctiid — bears a singular resemblance in size, cjlour and 

 general appearance to Phragmatobia fuliginosa, but its hind-wings are not so pink, 

 nor arc they bordered with black.] 



Diacriiia tlava,VfaX\g,v. — " I have found larva?, and fed them up on yellow 

 tliistle, and send a figure ; now (November) I am finding larvae on knapweed, and 

 othei's feeding on a kind of hawkwecd having a milky juice." 



[The larva is very bright and pretty — -moderately elongated, thinly covered 

 with slender tufts of brown hairs, the longest of which are upon the anal segment ; 

 head orange-red ; body rich yellow, with a bright white dorsal stripe, interrupted 

 on every segment by the yellow ground colour ; on each side of it a broad, similarly 



