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is flat, light brown, with dark spots and streaks. The body is 

 flat, and white with a pale green or .grey dorsal line, and two 

 rows of hardly visible white warts, set with white hair. The 

 cervical plate is whitish, with a brownish lustre. 



The transformation takes place between leaves, in a delicate 

 cocoon, and the pupa is slender, light brown, with dark wing- 

 cases. 



GENUS CRYPTOPHASA. (Cryptophosidce^ 

 Cryptophasa, Lewin, Lepid. Ins. N. S.Wales, p. n (1805); 

 Duncan, in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Exot. Moths, p. 117 (1841). 



The antennae are pectinated nearly to the tips in the male, but 

 are simple in the female. The proboscis is obsolete, and the 

 palpi are cylindrical, curved upwards, and pointed. The wings 

 are glossy, with short fringes. The larva has sixteen legs, and 

 is long and cylindrical. It bores into the trunks of trees, and 

 emerges at night to provision its burrow with leaves, on which 

 it feeds. 



These Moths, though now referred to the Tinea, more 

 resemble Bombyces or Noctua in size and appearance ; and 

 they are among the largest Tinea known. 



CRYPTOPHASA IRRORATA. 



(Plate CLVIL) 



Cryptophasa irrorata, Lewin, Lepid. Ins. N. S.Wales, p. n, 

 pi. 10 (1805) ; Duncan, in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Exot. 

 Moths, p. 117, pi. 10 (1841). 



This remarkable species is a native of Australia. 



It expands from an inch and three-quarters to two inches 

 and a quarter. 



The fore-wings are dusky grey, thickly speckled with brown 

 and white atoms, with a conspicuous ear-shaped spot beyond 

 the middle of the wings and an angular patch of dark dots 



