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conspicuous silvery markings. Their larvae feed in the wood 

 of trees, Hke those of the Zeuzcridcc. There is also a beautiful 

 Australian genus, which may easily be distinguished by its 

 moderately broad wings, with conspicuous green markings, and 

 the long abdomen. The species are of moderate size, and the 

 type of the genus QZiietns is here described and figured. 



CENETUS LIGNIVORUS. 

 {Plate CXXVI., Figs, I, 2; larva, Fig. 3.) 



Hcpialus ligjiivonis^ Lewin, Prodr. Ent., pi. 16(1805); Bois- 

 duval, Voy. Austrolabe, Lepid., p. 234 (1832) ; Duncan in 

 Jardine's Nat. Libr., Exot. Moths, p. 107, pi. 8, figs. 1-3 

 (1841); Meyrick, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, ii., p. 1129 

 (1890). 



Charagia ligiiivora^ Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. vii., 

 p. 1570, no. 3 (1856); Scott, Austral. Lepid., i., p. 5, pi. 2 

 (1864); id. Trans. Ent. Soc. N. S. Wales, ii., p. 29 (1873). 



CEnetus /igm'voriis, Kirby, Cat. Lepid. Heter. i., p. 891 (1892). 



This beautiful species is a native of Australia. It expands 

 about two inches. 



The fore-wings are of a brilliant yellowish-green, divided into 

 two patches by a waved band of ferruginous brown intersected 

 with dusky, and several small sharply-defined marks of scarlet 

 and some short dashes of the same colour on the costa. llie 

 fringes are brown, and the external green patch is intersected 

 by a broad, waved light brown line. The hind-wings are 

 reddish flesh-colour, shaded witli dusky on the inner margin, 

 and tinged with blue at the base. The antennre arc brown, 

 the head and collar are bluish-grey, the thorax green, like the 

 fore-wings, and the abdomen is long, with a dark tuft at the 

 extremity. 



