120 CRYPTOPHASA RUBESCENS. 



large stems of which it bores deep cylindrical holes, 

 generally in the axillae of the branches. It sallies 

 out only by night, and brings to its dwelling whole 

 leaves of the broad foliage of this tree with dex- 

 terity and great labour, exhibiting many marks of 

 sagacity in its progress, and when it arrives at the 

 entrance to its retreat, it raises up the covering 

 with its hinder parts and slips into its cell back- 

 wards, dragging the leaf after it, the extreme end of 

 the stalk being held artfully in its jaws. It does 

 not quit its hold till the leaf be almost entirely 

 within its cell, where it fastens it down, together 

 with the covering of the entrance, by a web. It 

 changes to a pupa within this cell, in January, 

 making no web ; it remains thus thirty days, and is 

 on the wing in February, when it frequents the 

 tops of lofty trees. 



C. rubescens. — Anterior wings yellowish-clay coloured, 

 tinged with rose-colour ; posterior wings orange-yellow ; 

 abdomen with a square mark of red at the base. Ex- 

 pansion, female two inches ; male, an inch and a half. 

 Lewin, pi. 12. 



The larva is a nocturnal feeder, like the rest of 

 this tribe, and does not differ much in its habits 

 from the preceding species. It lodges in the stems 

 of the Mimosa ensifolia, having the entrance to its 

 gallery secured by a covering of excrement, which is 

 held fast, when the inmate is within, by a web. 

 The leaves of the mimosa are lanceolate, and of 

 such a length as to preclude the possibility of being 

 taken wholly within ; the greater part of the leaf 



