116 CRYPTOTHELEA MACLEAYI. 



therefore, in connexion with the former species, it 

 must be understood that they resemble each other 

 only in their metamorphoses, which are indeed 

 strikingly similar. 



Cryptothelea has the antennas pectinated through- 

 out their whole extent, the pectinations gradually 

 diminishing in length from the base to the apex ; 

 wings broad and ample, the exterior margin of all 

 of them rounded ; body slender, and the extremity 

 of the abdomen not projecting beyond the line of 

 the hinder wings. Female apterous, never leaving 

 the puparium. 



The male of this species, named by its discoverer 

 in honour of Mr. Macleay, is wholly of a black 

 colour ; the female yellowish, each segment with a 

 band of yellow wool-like hairs. The larva has the 

 three anterior segments of the thorax and the head 

 yellow with brown marks; the rest obscure and 

 bearing scattered pale warts. It always carries its 

 tail erect, and lives among the branches and trunks 

 of old trees, frequently forming its moveable tent of 

 the lichens with which they are covered. In most 

 other respects the history of this insect nearly cor- 

 responds to that of 0. Kirhyi. 



