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•curls the forepart round with the head underneath, like a pas- 

 toral crook. On the back of the twelfth segment is a 

 projecting semicircular disk, 3 r ellow above, black beneath. 

 Loops very much in walking. It is full fed about the end of 

 'February, and passes the winter in the pupa state. Food plant, 

 white gum. 



10. PlIALLARTA OPHIUSARIA, Gil. 



Expanse, 2' 6", 2' 11". March 3rd, 1886. 



"Wings ample, fore-wings strongly hooked at tip ; all the 

 wings pale greenish-brown, with a very distinct ferruginous 

 •coloured stripe running from costa, near apex, in a curved di- 

 rection, across both to centre of inner margin of hind-wings. 

 The inside of this is faintly bordered with yellow. There is 

 also a large white spot with dark border in centre of each 

 w T ing. Antennae strongly pectinated in male, thickened only 

 in female. Bare up here — in fact, I have as yet only taken 

 one female. The larva is unknown to me. but is said to feed 

 on Callistemon. I knocked my specimen out of a white gum 

 sapling ; it new slowly and heavily. 



11. Gastrophora henricaria, Gn. 



Expanse (male) 2' 7". October 29, 1884. 



Fore-wings ample costa slightly rounded ; apex acute ; hind 

 margin straight, oblique. A dark purple bar crosses the fore- 

 wing in the centre from costa to inner margin. The basal half 

 of wing is light yellowish-gray, the posterior half much darker 

 purplish-gray. Thorax and body white. Hind-wings bright 

 orange with a broad deep purple transverse bar, outside of 

 which are eight round purple spots. Antennae of male very 

 highly plumose and white. I do not know the female 

 nor anything about the larva. My specimen came to light. 

 Mr. Meyrick says that this beautiful insect used to be not un- 

 common in old collections, but he had never seen a recent speci- 

 men except mine. 



SUB-FAMILY III.-GEOMETEID.E. 

 Up to the present time I have only obtained two genera 

 with five species of this sub-family, but I know that there are 

 several others. They are mostly green or greenish-gray in- 

 sects, and appear to be generally distributed, and I doubt if 

 amy be really rare. 



1. IODIS EXTERNA, Walk. 



Expanse,- 1 inch. November, December. 



All the w T ings bright green, with a small dark spot in centre 

 of each. Collar, costa and cilia crimson. ]Not very common 

 here; generally considered a scarce insect. 



