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of (Ecophorce, suggests the idea that tlie stems of tlie Eucalijptl are 

 well riddled by their wood-boring larvae ; while the brilliancy of 

 Adela Laurella assures us of sunny days ; and the gay (Ecophora 

 Marionella seems destined also for diurnal display. It is in- 

 teresting, and at the same time indicative of the richness of the 

 fauna, to observe, that almost every individual is distinct as a 

 species ; not merely separable by the tutored eye of science, but 

 possessed of differences so strongly pronounced that the most 

 careless observer could not fail to detect them ; and this remark, 

 as to distinctness of species, seems to apply equally to others, the 

 worn condition of which renders it dangerous to describe them. 



I have only to add that, although no precise habitats have been 

 preserved, the entire collection was made at Forest Creek, Barker's 

 Creek and Campbell's Creek, all on the Mount Alexander range, 

 and at a distance of about eighty miles from Melbourne. 



Class LEPIDOPTERA, Linn. 



Stirps PHAL^NINA, Newman.* 



Genus Zeuzera, Fabricius. 



Sp. 1. Zeuzera DuponchcUi, Newman. 



Fcem. — Alis anticis fuscis, fasciis numerosis undatis nonnunquam 

 anastomosantibus saturatiorihus ; posticis basi rub'igi7iosiSy apice 

 fuscescentibus ; capite thoraccque saturate fuscis ; abdomine 

 fuscescenti, basi rubiginoso, (Alarum dilat. 3'6 nnc.) 



Female. — Head and thorax dark brown ; abdomen brown, ferru- 

 ginous at base : fore wings dark brown, with numerous darker and 

 nearly black markings, which, as in many species of Zeuzera and 

 Xyleutes, are arranged transversely, waved, and frequently anasto- 

 mose with each other ; hind wings towards the apex of an obscure 

 dingy brown, with the transverse waved markings faintly indicated, 

 towards the base rust-coloured. 



Mr. Oxley has brought home but a single specimen of this 

 Zeuzera, which I have great pleasure in naming after one of the 

 most distinguished of Lepidopterists. There are two species 

 with which it may be advantageously compared : first, Cossus 

 I'lluratus of Donovan and Boisduval, identical, as I imagine, with 

 Cossus nebulosus of the same authors, and certainly the Zeuzera 

 liturata anA Zeuzera nebulosa of Mr. Walker's Catalogue of the Lepi- 



• Equivalent to the typical Phal<ttiee of Linnieus, viz., Pkal<ena AUacus and 

 Phalana Bomhyi. 



