284 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



DANIMA BANKSI^E. 

 (Pla'e XCV. Fig. I (imago], 2 (!awa).) 



Bomlyx banksice, Lewin, Prodr. Ent. pi. 9 (1805). 



Harpyia banksia, Duncan in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Ent. Moths, 



p. 164, pi. 17, fig. 2 (1841). 

 Danima banksice, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. v. p. 



1053, no. i (1855). 



This Moth is found in Australia and Tasmania. The male 

 expands upwards of two inches and the female about 3^ 

 inches. 



In the female the fore-wings are of a leaden colour, glossed 

 with purple, with a few black marks, and freckled here and 

 there with white and orange-coloured dots, and also several 

 clouds and dashes of the same colour. The fringes are brown. 

 The hind-wings are uniform glossy-brown with lighter fringes. 

 The thorax is black, with two white patches spotted with 

 orange towards the front. The abdomen is orange-coloured, 

 with three black spots on the sides, and a black tip. 



The male is lighter in colour, with whitish and silvery hind- 

 wings, and brown antennae, pectinated at the base. 



The larva is a handsome one, and bears a considerable re- 

 semblance to that of a Sphinx, both in form and markings. It 

 is yellowish, with the head and upper part of the last segment 

 yellowish-brown, the latter with a small black horn and a grey 

 spot behind. On the back of the middle segments is a white 

 stripe, and on the sides of the second and third segments are 

 round white spots; on those following they are arranged around 

 a triangular or quadrilateral figure, and lower down on each 

 segment is an oblique, somewhat oval white streak ; below 

 this, again, on the seventh and succeeding segments, is a 

 white spot ringed with black. 



It feeds on Banksia ilidfolia, var. integrifolia, and when 



