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formed of a webbed bag to which quantities of small dead leaves are 
attached by one end only, so as to cover it entirely and flutter like a 
withered bunch of leaves; but all are hung upon trees as much 
resembling the nests in colour and aspect as possible. Those I have 
opened are lined within with the smoothest white silken web, the 
outer portion being brown or ash-coloured to correspond with the 
tint of the twigs or leaves.’’ 
Mrs. Meredith gives five figures of these cases, two being cylindrical, 
covered with thick bits of stick of various lengths, arranged close 
together longitudinally round the case; a third is a large elongate 
ovate bag with short bits of stick worked into it irregularly ; a fourth 
is a cone of web covered with small dry leaves attached to it in great 
numbers by the base of the leaf; and the fifth is a cone of web with 
small twigs and grass straws attached to it and arranged longitu- 
dinally. The first and second of these figures seem to represent the 
cases of the same species, of which I do not know the perfect insects ; 
the third is a small case of Oik. Saundersii ; the fourth appears to 
be a small case of leaves similar to that figured in Plate XXXIV. 
fig. 5, of which I am not acquainted with the perfect insects; and 
the fifth may be a small case of Ock. Hiibneri. 
Orxeticus Saunpersit, Westw. (Plate XXXV.) 
Mas. Niger, capite dimidio antico, thoracis, pedibus anticis, inci- 
suris apiceque abdominis fulvis, antennis brevibus nigris dimi- 
diato-bipectinatis; alis fuliginosis, venis hyalinis, tarsis nigris. 
Expans. alar. antic. unc. 2. 
Fem. Cylindrica, luteo-albida vel faunicolor, capite segmentisque 
tribus anticis supra nudis, glabris, reliquis sericeis opacis, 
apicali tomento sericeo obscurius colorato omnino vestito ; pedi- 
bus brevissimis, antennis obsoletis (oculo nudo haud detectis), 
oviductu elongato. 
Long. corp. unc. 14; latit. unc. 4. 
Hab. In Nova Hollandia, prope Sydney. In Mus. W. W. Saun- 
ders, British Museum, &c. 
Syn. Oiketicus elongatus, W. W. Saunders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 
vol. v. (1847), p. 43. 
Considering it advisable to maintain for these curious insects the 
system of specific names commenced by the Rev. L. Guilding, I have 
altered that proposed for the present species by its first describer, it 
being moreover inappropriate as applicable to other species agreeing 
with the present in structure. The antennz of the males of this 
species consist of about forty joints, of which the first and second are 
thickened, the second very short, the nineteen fellowing bipectinated, 
and the eighteen or nineteen terminal ones only serrated, but of these 
a few towards the base have the serratures furcate, indicating the bipec- 
tination of the preceding joints. The fore wings are elongated and offer 
several peculiarities in the arrangement of their veins. From the ac- 
companying figure (Pl. XXXV. fig. 2) it will be seen that there are 
twelve branches running to the margins of the wing (which is the 
