AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. 7 



Lilcc the C. Lignivora, with whom it may be found dwelling in juxta position, this eatorpiUar is polyphagous, and boars so 

 great a resemblance in markings, color, and formation, that we are unable to point out any peculiarity by which the one might 

 be distinguished from the other, with the exception only of greater size. In reference to both of these insects, wo may here 

 remark, that when they take possession of small stems citlier of climbing plants as the Teeoma Australis in the plate, or of the 

 Aomena elliptica, the form of the bag-like covering is of a long oval, produced at each end, whereas, in larger plants, it assumes 

 that irregular form shewn in the preceding species. 



The Chrysalis (fig. 1, female) is precisely similar to, but a little larger than, that of the previous species. 



The male measures in expanse 2i',7 inches, the female slightly over 2J Indies, although we have occasionally procured speci- 

 mens fully half an inch larger. 



The Antenna: (iig. 2, female, shewing the slight thickening in the middle; fig. 3, portion of male) exhibit the same 



formation as species 1. 



Iho Labial palpi (figs. 4 and 5, denuded of hair) 3-jointed, basal and 2nd joints almost equal in length to each other, 

 terminal minute. 



T\\c Legs (fig. 6, 2nd log; and 7, posterior leg of the female ; 8, posterior leg of the male ; 9, a liair taken from 



the brush on the tibiae) assimilate to those before-described. 



The male is on the vipper surface of the fore wing of an emerald green, thickly sot over vfiih. various silvery bands, the 

 costal and transverse ones arranged as in the male C. Lignivora ; those on the inner margin more connected and zigzag in 

 character. Over tlie disc is a V-shaped mark of silvery-blue, the adjoining space occupied by various transverse lines and dots 

 of darker green. Beyond the silver transverse band are others running parallel to the exterior margin ; of these the inner are 

 bluish, the outer silvery. The under wing and abdomen lustrous bluish-white ; the extremity of the latter contains an oblong 

 mark of green, of which color the thorax is also composed, but the tufts upon it, together ivith the collar and head, are of silver. 



The under surface throughout is of a light, shining, greenish-white, glossed at the tips by pale golden-ycUow. 



The centre of each upper wing of the female contains a large triangular-shaped marking of vivid, light, satin-green, deepening 

 exteriorly, and having under tlxe costa three distinct notches. From the apex to about half of the exterior margin, runs a broad band 

 with a deep indentation on the inner side : this, together with three spots, one near the outer angle, and two approaching the base, is 

 of the same intense green as the discal mark before-described. The remaining portion of the wing consists of dark-purple, deepen- 

 ing in relief towards the green markings. Under wings and abdomen, pale purplish-red, with a dark shade over the hinder 

 angles of the former, and extremity of the latter. Thorax and head dark-brown. The pale-red of the hind wings pervades the 

 whole of the under surface, including the legs. 



In the plate, our caterpillar is exhibited as if about to repair the broken web, which it has constructed upon the Tccoma 

 Australis ; on the long trailing stems of which several of these curious habitations, close to each other, are frequently met with. 

 Three perfect insects are figured, one, a female at rest, to shew the peculiarity of the position adopted by tliis group in general. 



CRYPTOPHASA. 



Crijptophasa, Lewin. 



Ate anticie, lon^as, angustiE, serioco!, incumbcntes ; costa arcuata. Corpus crassum, pilosum, abdomine alas posticas 

 superante, apice in maribus cirrato ; in fcminis rotundato. Palpi divergontes, usque ad verticem recurvi, articulo terminal!, 

 gracili et aocuminati ; secundo dimidia parte majori ; basali minuto. Antenna; in maribus aut bipectinatffi aut subtus sctacea;. 

 Pedes antici, minimi ; intermedii majores, calcaribus duobus apicalibus armati ; postici magni, validi, quatuor calcaribus longis ; 

 tibiis dense pilosis. Larva agilis, mollis, cylindrica, varicgata plcrumque latera et dorsum maculis ornata, paucisque setis dcH- 

 catis, capito et segmcnto antoriore squamosis ; sexdecim pedibus instructa ; in ligno solitaria habitans, et folia iUata in orypta 

 depascens. Pupa"! elongata antico aliis cornea, aliis spinosa ; un^ quidem specie cminet e coUo asperum quoddam tuber bifur- 

 catum et recurvum ; segmentis abdominalibus annulis serratis plus minusve armatis. 



Pore mngs long, narrow, glossy, with the costa arched, and decumbent in repose. Body stout, pilose ; abdomen extending 

 beyond the bind^wings,' tufted in the male, rounded in the female. Palpi divergent, recurving to nearly the top of the head ; 



