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very quickly, making up for their long fast by day. They 

 can souietimes be found during the day right down close 

 to the ground upon the bark, or in any large crevice in the 

 trunk of the tree often twenty to forty feet from their food. 

 It was whilst sugaring some two years ago that I first found 

 these larva', and they were then crawling up the tree from 

 the ground. I could have taken forty or fifty if I liked, but not 

 knowing they were rare at the time, I only took thirteen, from 

 which I reared nine moths. After their next moult they are 

 about one and a half inches in lengr,h, and feed up very quickly 

 indeed, returning each day to almost the same [osition ujon the 

 trunk of the tree ; the head is l)lack with white or grey mark- 

 ings, the second, third and fourth segments are larger than the 

 others, and the last segment very humped ; they are beautifully 

 variegated down the back with grey, yellow, i-ed-brown, and 

 often — if there is much lichen upon the trunk of the trees — 

 sviffused with green ; from the head to the hind claspers 

 above the legs and claspers are long tufts of hairs light and 

 dark brown in colour, the hind claspers are much larger than the 

 others, and they spiawl out a long way behind. The underside 

 is now generally yellow with black .spots, sometimes being grey 

 or white. When full fed they are about two and a quarter 

 inches in length, and they go up at night and spin a loose 

 cocoon, white in colour, in the leaves, and change to light grey 

 pupie, covered with black-brown hairs, very similar to Liparis 

 monacha, emerging about ten days afterwards. The male 

 is much smaller than the female, and both are nearly black in 

 colour. Owing to the food-plant being uncommon the moth 

 is certainly rare, and I have never taken or found the same in 

 a wild state, nor has any one else I know done so. Yet it is 

 undoubtedly double- brooded, as I have reared a good number 

 fi-om ova obtained from a pairing of moths bred from larvie 

 found in November 1901. The moths emerged in December, the 

 fust coming out curiously enough on Christmas Day, and those 

 I bred from the pairing then obtained came out in March 1902. 

 I did not, however, get a pairing on this latter occasion, although 

 1 sacrificed two females and five males to do so. I have searched 

 this food ujjon eveiy occasion when met with this year, but 

 have not again found the larvie. This mistletoe, however, is 



