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black; anal segment brownish-ochreous : feeds on Banksia serrata, 

 Ceratopetalnm gummiferum, and CaUicoma serratifolia, residing 

 in a barricaded tunnel in the branches and carrying in leaves for 

 food, from September to December. Although the foodplants 

 are of very remote Natural Orders, it is unquestionably the same 

 species which feeds on these apparently very different foods. 



12. Crypt, irrorata, Lw. 



(Cryptophasa irrorata, Lw., Ins. IST. S. Wales.) 

 Both sexes 43-58mm. Head and thorax grey, or whitish 

 mixed with grey, more or less sprinkled with dark fuscous. Palpi 

 whitish, sprinkled with dark fuscous. Antenme grey-whitish, 

 pectinations in male ochreous. Abdomen rather dark fuscous. 

 Legs dark fuscous, sprinkled with whitish. Forewings oblong, 

 posteriorly slightly dilated, costa in male straight, in female gently 

 arched, apex rounded, hind margin somewhat oblique, gently 

 rounded ; 2 from | ; grey, more or less sprinkled with ferruginous 

 and brown, and coarsely irrorated with black ; a small darker 

 spot in disc before middle, and a second beneath first ; an obscure 

 pale dark-margined reniform spot in disc at §, connected with 

 costa beyond middle by an indistinct streak ; a row of more or 

 less marked dark fuscous spots along hind margin and posterior 

 half of costa : cilia fuscous-grey, with two darker lines. Hind- 

 wings with veins 6 and 7 from a point or short-stalked ; rather 

 dark fuscous ; cilia whitish, with a fuscous line, and indistinct 

 traces of fuscous bars. 



Newcastle and Sydney, New South Wales ; Melbourne and 

 Warragul, Victoria ; bred tolerably commonly in December. 

 Larva 16-legged, stout, cylindrical, with scattered long whitish 

 hairs, second segment large ; dull white, segmental divisions 

 blackish; segments 5-12 each with a slender black transverse 

 central wrinkle, two elongate-oval transverse ochreous-red spots 

 on back near anterior margin, some scattered black depressed 

 dots, forming short longitudinal lines on sides above spiracles, an 

 oblique-oval ochreous-red spiracular sjDot bordered beneath by a 

 blackish mark, and three roundish ochreous-red spots placed in 

 an inverted triangle below spiracles ; fourth segment with dorsal 

 spots much smaller and more remote, each followed by a slender 

 oblique-transverse blackish line, lateral spots as usual, but upper 

 anterior of subspiracular spots much larger and approximated to 

 spiracular ; third segment similar to fourth, but with two addi- 

 tional elongate-oval transverse ochreous-red spots on back near 

 posterior margin ; second segment whitish, anteriorly brownish- 

 tinged, with a broad dark fuscous irregular median band, 

 attenuated beneath, interrupted on back ; head blackish, with 

 two short blunt prominences on forehead, and other smaller ones 



