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from minute wrinkled and pitted sculpture. Cremaster very short, flattened, broad, 

 and divided into four conical points. Apparently without cocoon in the earth]. 



Dulichia fasciata, Walk. — " This species is found sitting on grass or low bushes, 

 and on the trees by day and also at night, particularly the latter, and if dis- 

 turbed will often dash down to the ground and try to hide itself in the dirt under 

 the trees, so that it is necessary to secure it by hand. I found some of the caterpillars 

 when small on the trunk of a black wattle at Nggeleni ; they fed by preference on 

 apricot, but were tender, and many died off." 



[The moth is a pretty creature, pale ochreous, the fore-wings having an orange 

 central band dotted and dusted with grey-black. The larva has a broad grey-black 

 hairy head, the anterior segments and the sides greyish-white, with a large purple- 

 brown or chocolate hump on the third and fourth segments, and behind this a broad 

 similar dorsal stripe ; on the twelfth segment is a thick, short, upright tuft of black 

 hairs, and long tufts of greyish-white hairs spread widely on either side of the body, 

 the dorsal region being thickly covered with shorter hairs. Pupa short and thick, 

 limb and wing covers chocolate-brown wrinkled all over with cross sculpture ; seg- 

 ments finely pitted, but sharply ridged at their edges, and thinly clothed with fine 

 short hairs ; cremaster long, thick and conical, having a tuft of spreading hooks at 

 the tip]. 



Orgji'ia histigmigera, Butl. — " This was the result of a hastily put-aside lot of 

 small caterpillars brought in one day from the garden by one of the girls. This one 

 spun up at once. T remember it as reddish-black with short black hairs, three 

 quarters of an inch long. I believe that it was found on lucerne. The black an- 

 tennae of the moth are curious and striking." 



[Otherwise the moth is not remarkable— a small Orgyia, dull ochreous, with 

 two black dots placed perpendicularly as a discal spot on the fore-wings, and a broad 

 dull black border to the hind-wings. The pupa is short, very glossy, chestnut-red, 

 the whole dorsal surface from the front of the head is thickly set with upstanding 

 pale yellow hairs, which are especially thick on the abdominal segments ; cremaster 

 an elongated conical spike, with a bunch of hooked bristles at the tip. In a soft 

 thin cocoon of silk and larval hairs, among leaves]. 



Tceniopyga st/Ivana, Walk. — " The caterpillar is two inches long, smooth, yellow, 

 with light chocolate bands round the segments. I found two of them feeding by 

 day, and was much amused, because, when only a little bit of blossom remained, the 

 smaller and livelier caterpillar bit and pinched the larger one and made it move on, 

 and then went on to eat, but the other came back to the charge and was again 

 pinched, until I thought it well to separate them. The plant is what the people 

 here call yellow snowdrop. It is an upright plant with green and yellow blossoms, 

 not very pretty, but it is attractive also to the lovely little Eretmocera latissima. 

 The moth was reared in January ; I send the pupa ; the cocoon was of sand and 

 very brittle." 



[The larva is figured both crawling and when rolled up in a complete coil. The 

 head is chocolate-red ; the band round the hinder portion of each segment is rather 

 broad, and in the full grown larva rather deep chocolate ; at the back of the eleventh 

 segment the dark band is narrower and pushed more forward to make room for two 



