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very "hard to the leaf, with the body thrown out straight and 

 rigid. Of course loops very much in walking. Full-fed about 

 the middle of December. 



SUB-FAMILY IV.— ACIDALIAD^E. 



This sub-family is represented here by only four species, 

 but three at least of these by their great numbers are perfect 

 pests to the collector. 



1. ACIDALIA RECESSATA, Walk. 



Expanse, 10". Out all summer and autumn. 

 All the wings light-grey, with various faint wavy lines. Sits 

 w r ith its wings expanded on leaves, &c. Extremely abundant. 



2. ACIDALIA ALBICOSTATA, Walk. 



Expanse, 7". All the spring and summer, 



A small, and when fresh, pretty insect ; but it soon fades. 

 All the wings light purplish-red, with abroad light bar beneath 

 costa of fore-wings. I generally beat it from Banksia, but 

 hardly think that is its proper food-plant, or, at any rate, 

 not the only one. The male is much smaller and brighter than 

 the female. Yery abundant. 



3. Acidalia prosaula, Meyr. 



Expanse, 8". 



The two sexes are very different looking in this species. The 

 male is generally nearly unicolorous, of a dark olive-brown 

 colour. The female is much lighter and grayer, w r ith a broad 

 transverse band crossing both wings. 



A local and rather scarce little insect, that had been over- 

 looked until I took it, and has been as yet only found in this 

 immediate neighbourhood. Elies over and among grass. 



4. Acidalia rubraria, Bbld. 



Expanse, 10". Elies all the year round, except perhaps in 

 July. 



This is the little reddish brown moth that anybody walking 

 through the hill paddocks or scrub kicks up by hundreds. The 

 ground colour is variable, but the markings consist principally 

 of two wavy dark lines across both wings, inside which the 

 colour is lighter. This appears to be constant, whilst other 

 lines vary in almost every specimen. 



SUB-FAMILY V.— BOAKMIAD^I. 



This sub- family appears to be the best represented of any in 



this neighbourhood, and contains many striking forms. Up to 



the present I have taken 24 species in fourteen genera. As a 



rule they are medium or large-sized moths, the greater number 



