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wings assimilate greatly to those of the Gh : Ugnivora, 

 but are infinitely more slender and delicate. 

 Inferior wings, pale bluish assuming a purplish tinge 

 towards the anterior border. 



Female... ...length of wings 24 lines ; of body 14 lines. 



Sjijoerior ivings, bright I'ich purple ; a large green 



band on the middle, deeply notched in front ; dilated 



and angular behind. 



Injerior wings, pale rich purple. 



The body in colour throughout, similar to the wings, 



but darker towards the lower extremities. 



Larva in length about 19 lines ; is of a cream-colour, slightly 



pinkish in parts ; the head is black-brown, and the 

 squamose portions pale reddish-brown. 

 The larvEe are common in the vicinity of Sydney, usually 



occupying the main stems of the small saplings of the casuarinae. 

 The Charagia Lamberti of the Brit. Mus. Cat. is the male of 



this species, for which we have retained the name of Lewin, 



originally bestowed on the female insect by 3Ir. Stephens. 



4. — Chaeagia splendens. 



Charagia splendens. iScoit, Aiist. Lep., p. 6., pi. 2. 



Male length of wings 26 lines : of body 15 lines. 



Superior wings, bright yellowish green, mottled with 

 darker, and gaily adorned by numerous complicated 

 markings. A continuous band of silver proceeds 

 along the costa to about frds of its length, crosses 

 the wing a little beyond the middle to its inner 

 margin, thence towards the base in a zig-zag manner, 

 forming in this latter course a couple of distinct 

 angles. Two silver bands, connected at their upper 

 ends by a curve, run parallel to the exterior margin, 

 and between these and the first described transverse 

 band ai-e two others of a bright, light, silvery-bluish 

 green. On the centre of the wing is placed conspicu- 

 ously a rather large V shaped figure, also of bright 

 bluish-green. 



