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of one of them, the Melicytus ramiflorus, or, " Mahoc,^^ of the 

 natives, there were no less than thirty habitations of this species 

 " literally " as he remarked " studded with their abodes." 



I feel fully assured that the Charagia virescens and the Cha- 

 ragia rubroviridans of the Brit. Mus. Cat., pp. 1569 and 1570, 

 are the male and female of the one species. 



2. — Charagia lignivora. 



Charagia lignivora. Brit. Mus. Cat. Zep. Set., p. 1570. Scott's Aust. Lep„ 



p. 5, pi. 2. 

 Hepialus lignivora. Lewin. Lcp. Ins, New South Wales, pi. 16. 



Male Length of wings 24 lines : of body 15 lines. 



Superior ivings, vivid emerald green, occasionally 

 yellowish, adorned by a continuous rather broad sil- 

 ver band, running from the base along the costa, to 

 about l^ths of its length ; then transversely across the 

 wing to the posterior border, from which it proceeds 

 towards the half of the discoidal cell, and again 

 returns to the interior margin near its base, thus 

 forming in its course a somewhat triangular figure of 

 bright silver over the bed of green. 

 Inferior wings, pale bluish, inclining to a greenish 

 hue ; towards the tips are two short indistinct bars, 

 slightly yellowish. 



Head and Collar yellowish white : tufts on the thorax 

 emerald-green. Abdomen, upper part greenish white, 

 central delicate purple, and terminal emerald green. 



Female length of wings 31 lines : of body 18 lines. 



Superior ivings bright light green over which are 

 delicate irregular lines of scarlet, those under the 

 costa and across the wing a little beyond the middle, 

 are much the most distinct. The outer angle and the 

 interior portion of the base of the wing, are both 

 occupied largely by deep purplish-red, each of these 

 patches relieved by spots of lighter and brighter 

 colour placed within them. 



