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CRYPTOTHELEA MACLEAYI. 



(Page 211, Fig. 6.) 



Oiketicus machayi, Guilding, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xv. p. 375, 

 pi. 8 (1827); West wood, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1854, 

 p. 222, pi. 34, fig. 3. 

 Cryptothelea macleayi^ Duncan, in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Exot. 



Moths, p. 115, pi. 9, fig. 6 (1841). 



Psyche macleayi. Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. iv. p. 955, 

 no. 14(1855). 



The male is dark brown or blackish, and expands rather more 

 than half an inch. The female is yellowish, with a band of 

 yellow woolly hair on each segment. In the larva, the head 

 and the three thoracic segments are yellow with brown mark- 

 ings ; the rest of the body is brownish, with scattered pale 

 warts. It always carries its tail erect, and lives among the 

 branches and trunks of old trees, frequently forming its case 

 of the lichens with which they are covered. In other respects 

 its habits are said to resemble those of (Eceticus. 



FAMILY XXV. LIMACODID^E. 



Eggs. (Of Heterogenea cruciata) laid in an agglomerated 

 mass, pale, shining, translucent. 



Larva. Depressed, limaciform, with imperfectly developed or 

 retractile legs, smooth or fasciculate, and often furnished with a 

 formidable stinging apparatus. 



Pupa. Enclosed in a large cocoon provided with a lid. 



Imago. Of small or moderate size, usually with the body 

 short and stout, the legs stout, and the wings short and oval, 

 the fore-wings with two sub-median nervures (the lowermost 

 forked at the base) and the hind-wings with three. Frenulum 

 present; proboscis often rudimentary. 



