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woolly-white longitudinal stripes of hair almost meeting at 

 posterior portion, and more or less continued to anterior por- 

 tion of abdomen, antennal pectinations at greatest length 6. 

 Forewings elongate, moderate, costa nearly straight, apex 

 rounded, termen gently bowed, oblique; light fuscous, 

 minutely irrorated with blackish, more especially around mar- 

 gins; cell with an almost transparent elongate cordate patch 

 at posterior extremity; veins outlined with blackish; cilia 

 short, blackish. Hind wings with apex rounded, termen round- 

 ed, continuous with apex; colour, veins, and cilia as in fore- 

 wings; hairs of dorsum blackish. 



Case. — 25-28 mm. in length ; dull greyish-fuscous, main 

 projecting twin 35 mm. long, case 7 mm. in diameter, 27 mm. 

 in circumference, ornamented by about four main pieces of 

 twigs of Eucalyptus, sp., which are the full length of cocoon, 

 and about 12 to 16 smaller, shorter, and somewhat similar 

 pieces, some of which are equally as long as the four, but thin- 

 ner; the main projecting stem is generally much thicker than 

 the rest, and extends about 10 mm. beyond the extremity of 

 the lower aperture of case. Outer portion of twigs more or less 

 covered with innumerable silky grey-whitish hairs, rather 

 short. 



Launceston, Tasmania. A fine series bred by Mr. F. M. 

 Littler; in January. Also from Sydney, New South Wales; 

 Blackwood and Port Lincoln, South Australia; Gisborne and 

 Stawell, Victoria. 



8. C. Lewinii, Westw. 



Oiket'icus Lewinii, Westw., P.Z.S., Lond., 1854. p. 231. t. 

 37, fig. 1; Macal., Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc., Dublin, v., p. 131, 1867. 



(5 , 24 mm. Head, thorax, antennae, abdomen, and legs 

 brownish, face whitish, patagia whitish, thorax with two dull 

 white longitudinal stripes of woolly hair more or less meeting 

 posteriorly. Antennal pectinations light fuscous, pectinations 

 at greatest length 6. Forewings elongate, moderate, costa 

 nearly straight, apex rounded, termen gently bowed, oblique; 

 very light fuscous, minutely irrorated with darker fuscous, 

 especially around margins; cell with an almost transparent 

 elongate-cordate mark at posterior extremity; veins outlined 

 in dull fuscous; cilia fuscous, rather short. Hindwings with 

 apex rounded, termen rounded continuous with apex; colour, 

 veins, and cilia as in forewings, hairs of dorsum light fuscous. 



Case. — Unknown. 



This species appears to differ from the preceding, to which 

 it is closely allied, by its larger size and more brownish colour- 

 ing; tenuis approaches it very closely in general appearance, 

 but the colouring in the 16 specimens before me of that species 



