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cous in its very early stages, cuts out a circular! piece of the leaf, 

 and forms a canopy-like shelter, leaving a small aperture for 

 ingress and egress. On approaching adult size this shelter is 

 deserted and a new one formed by drawing the edges of the 

 leaves together, gradually extending the domicile until of 

 suitable dimensions; in this last position the larva, pupates 

 during September and the imago is on the wing from Novem- 

 ber. 



The eggs are laid in April on the upper side of the leaf. 

 They are somewhat elongate-hemispherical in shape, and deeply 

 grooved. 



Feeds on Callicoma serratifoJia (Cunoniacece), Eloeocarpus 

 reffculafus, and B. cyaneus (Tiliacece). 



Sydney and Como, New South Wales; Brisbane to Cook- 

 town, Queensland; November to March, nine specimens. 



4. Tagiades, Hiib. 



Club of antennas gradual, elongate, pointed bent. Palpi 

 porrected, terminal joint short, obtuse. Posterior tibiae with 

 all spurs. Forewings in male without characters ; 5 parallel to 

 4 and 6 ; slightly nearer 6 at base. Hindwings with 5 rudi- 

 mentary. 



An Indo-Malayan genus of considerable extent ; represented 

 in Australia by the single known species. The insects are 

 mostly colored fuscous and white, the species under review 

 being no exception to the rule. 



6. Tagiades janetta, Butler. 



Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond.. p. 519 (1870); T. gamelia, Mi-sk. 

 Proc. Boy. Soc, Q'd., p. 146 (1889). 



Male, 50 mm. Head, thorax, palpi, antennae, and 

 abdomen dark fuscous. Palpi beneath whitish. Legs fus- 

 cous, strongly mixed with whitish. Forewings elongate, trian- 

 gular, costa rather strongly arched, termen hardly bowed, 

 oblique ; fuscous with silvery-white markings ; 2 somewhat 

 trapezoid spots just before end of cell, their apices more or less 

 confluent ; 2 moderate spots beyond and below extremity of 

 cell, first irregularly diamond-shaped ; second below and before, 

 somewhat triangular ; an irregular oblique series of 3 sub- 

 costal spots at three-fourths from base, median smallest, upper 

 sometimes surmounted by an additional minute spot ; 2 small 

 spots placed obliquely beyond and beneath lowest spot ; cilia 

 fuscous. Hindwings with termen rounded; white, basal 

 half, except along inner margin, light fuscous; a 



