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minute distinct punctures, the antennal cases being strongly dis- 

 played. The abdominal segments are roughly and irregularly 

 punctured. The spiracles are large, reniform, with anterior edge 

 much raised, so as to be high above the surface of the segments. 

 The cremaster is blunt, broad, rough, and very much wrinkled. 

 Length, 20 mm.; width, 10 mm. Found under loose bark at foot 

 of eucalyptus, enclosed in a very thin and slight web. 



Agarista glycine. Lewin. 



After 3rd moult. — Head and middle of 2nd segment orange, 

 the former with a waved black band in front, the latter with a 

 broken transverse line anteriorly, and four black spots behind, 

 the sides encroached upon by the white ground colour, marked 

 with black stripes. The rest of the body is white, with transverse 

 rows of black spots, almost resolved into bands. There are a 

 well-defined dorsal and two sub-dorsal lines, clear white. The 

 1 2th segment is prominently enlarged into a hump, dull red 

 in the centre, with four black tubercular spots, and black at the 

 extreme sides. The anal clasps and termination of the anal 

 segment are pitchy black, the former with two black longitudinal 

 stripes. Below the black spiracles, and at the base of the feet 

 and abdominal legs, is an orange blotch. Feet and legs pitchy. 

 Length, 18 mm. 



After 4th moult. — The larva has now a much lighter appear- 

 ance, owing to the increased width of the white lateral stripes, 

 which have lost their spot-like appearance, and are now. more 

 literally bands. The orange of the head and 2nd segment is now 

 brighter in shade, and the black bands on these more strongly 

 marked. The feet and legs are now wholly dull orange, the 

 former black at their tips, and the orange band at the base 

 brighter in colour. The red of the nth segment is also brighter, 

 and the long sparse hairs of the body are now pure white. 

 Length, 32 mm. 



Full grown. — The ground colour is now very pale yellow, 

 instead of white, but with this exception there is little change, 

 save in an increased intensity of all the markings. Length, 

 55 mm - 



BOMBYCES. 



Nyctemera amica. White. 



Pupa. — Short and blunt, the posterior segments abruptly 

 narrowed. Colour dark pitchy, the thorax, head, and wing-cases, 

 as well as all the segments, being edged with dark orange, 

 arranged in inconspicuous blotches. The cocoon is very thin 

 and light, composed of only a few blackish hairs. Length, 15 

 mm. ; width, 5 mm. Found, 20th December, under bark of 

 eucalyptus, the moth emerging 2 9th December. 



I frequently saw this species marked N. annulata in Australian 



