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orange-yellow spots on costa ; fringes yellow. Hind wings : apical 

 half orange-yellow, basal half peacock-green, with a small orange- 

 yellow spot on inner margin ; fringes yellow. Body : upper and under 

 sides peacock-green. Legs same colour. Body often projects 6 mm. 

 beyond the hind wings. 



This species is fairly common in parts. The males during 

 February and March may often be seen hovering about fences, 

 especially on any very warm day. They are very rapid and erratic 

 flyers, somewhat difficult to capture. This last summer they 

 were more numerous than usual. The females, on emerging, 

 crawl on to a post or a bough, and are there impregnated by the 

 males. They cannot fly in the least, but can run very fast, with 

 a curious ant-like motion. When approached they immediately 

 run round the post or bough, and hide in some crevice. Very 

 few females are seen in proportion to the number of males ; this 

 is perhaps owing to their shyness. The posterior extremity is 

 elongate, and the ovipositor is sheathed in long fuscous hairs. 

 Eggs dull milky white, no sign of any markings even under high 

 magnification, inclined to oval in shape. They are laid singly 

 on or in close proximity to their food-plants, which consist of 

 grasses and many species of garden-plants ; also members of the 

 acacia family. The larvae are, as is usual with many species of 

 case-moths, pale yellowish white, with the head and thoracic 

 segments chitinous, and marked with black. The cases are 

 15 mm. long by 5 mm. broad, and are composed of silk incrusted 

 on the outside with minute fragments of bark ; no twigs are 

 employed in their structure. They are flattened, being not more 

 than 3-4 mm. deep. The under sides of fence-rails is a favourite 

 locality for them, as are also the crevices in the bark of old 

 acacia-trees. The larvae reverse in the usual manner before 

 emerging from the lower end. 



Lepidoscia magnella, Walk. 



$ . 25 mm. Head yellow, face fuscous ; thorax, antennae, legs, 

 and abdomen dark fuscous ; thorax yellow anteriorly. Fore wings 

 elongate, moderate, dark fuscous, markings yellow ; a diffused spot on 

 inner margin ; a moderate straight fascia from before middle of costa to 

 before middle of inner margin ; a triangular spot on costa at four- 

 fifths ; a smaller spot on inner margin before anal angle ; a spot on 

 termen below middle. Hind wings dark fuscous ; basal third ochreous 

 yellow. 



? . 12 mm. Apterous. Ochreous brown. Round the ovipositor 

 is a dense tuft of hair, yellowish brown on surface, pale yellow at tips, 

 1'5 mm. long. 



The cases of this species are often very plentiful in gardens, 

 especially on apple-trees. They are both curious and interesting, 

 being composed of seven, sometimes eight, segments, each formed 

 by regular narrow strips of wood, 5 mm. long, laid on in a slight 

 spiral. The cases are cylindrical, or rather cannon-shaped, 



