6 AUSTKALIAX LEl'IDOPTEllA 



are undoubtedly male and lemalo of the same species. We have bred numerous specimens, and they exactly correspond \\-ith the 

 details given of each in the catalogue alluded to, and we feel com-inced that our assertions will be borne out when, in a future 

 number, we figure the Charagia Lewinii. 



We have found in December, the larva; of the C. Lignivora in considerable abundance inhabiting the interior of the saplings 

 of Casuarina, Callistemon, Eucalyptus, Dodona;a, Acmena, &c., &c. They rather exceed 2 inches in length, are fleshy, cylin- 

 drical, muscular, of a dark cream color, with the segmental divisions well defined. The segments which contain the true feet 

 are partly squamose, the anterior one wholly so, and shining brown. Dorsal and lateral rows of small horny plates arranged m 

 pairs and darker in tint than the ground color are continued along the remaining segments. Head black-brown, rough, with a few 

 scattered hairs. Tliis caterpillar subsists chiefly on the bark, destroying it to a considerable extent, and concealing the damaged 

 part, at the same time affording protection to itself, l)y means of a web rendered thick and consistent (almost equal to a coarse 

 manufactured fabric) by a coating of the fine triturated portions. The tubular cavity in the wood, which has been constructed 

 solely for its habitation, and the space within the woven fabric described above, are never left by the larva until the whole of its 

 changes have been perfected ; the chrysalis being formed in January, and the moth taking its final departure in the February 

 following. 



The ChrysaUs (fig. 1) is cream colored throughout, pointed and horny at the anterior portion, the remaining part soft, 

 elongated ; abdominal annuli, armed with small recurved spines ; in length, somewhat more than 1^ inch. 



The female exceeds in expanse 2J inches, the male 2 inches. 



The Aiiteimce of both sexes, minute, slightly moniliform and moderately pubescent. In the male (fig. 2) gradually 



tapering to the point, in the female somewhat thickened in the middle. 



The Labial palpi (fig. 3, female, 4, male, divested of hair) are small, porrected forwards, 3-joiuted, the middle one longest, 

 being about half as long again as the basal, and inflated posteriorly ; terminal one minute, rounded at 

 the apex — the whole set with longish hairs. 



l^\\c Leys spurless, anterior and second pairs (fig. 5, female) long and powerful, densely and compactly clothed 



with hair, so that the joints of the tarsi are scarcely observable. The posterior pairs small, pilose ; 

 in the male (fig. 6) tibia; furnished exteriorly with a dense tuft of long hairs — tarsi 5-jointed. 



The upper surface of the anterior wings of the male is of a vivid emerald green, inclining in some specimens to yellowish, 

 chastely relieved with brilliant silver, arranged in bands ; one of these proceeds along the costa till it unites with another 

 running across the wing, a little beyond the middle and parallel to the exterior margin. The inner margin within this trans- 

 verse band is occupied by two short oblique silver bands, converging to, but interrupted near, the base of the discoidal cell. 

 The under wing is of a greenish-white, tinted wiVa yellow exteriorly, with two short indistinct bars towards the tip. The head 

 and eoUar yellomsh-white ; the thorax tufted, and of an emerald green ; the upper portion of the abdomen greenish-white, the 

 central delicate purple, and terminal emerald green with fan-shaped appendages. 



The whole under surface pale greenish-white, possessing a sunny-gloss towards the tips of the wings. 



Of the female the middle of each superior wing is occupied by a large, bright, light-green triangular- shaped patch, close 

 to which a broad band of a similar color extends from the tip half way down the exterior border ; these markings are delicately 

 veined by short irregular transverse lines of scarlet. The remaining parts of the wing are of a mottled purplish-red, relieved 

 occasionally by brighter spots, the purple deepening at the hinder angle, with spots and waves of a duskv hue. The inferior 

 wings and abdomen are throughout light yellowish-red ; the thorax bi'ighter, with tufts of silver-grey, of which color the collar 

 and head are also composed. 



The under surface uniformly pale yeUowish-red. 



A branch of the Evodia mierococca is exhibited in the plate, as if torn asunder, in order that the caterpillar might l)e 

 seen in its cylindrical habitation. Immediately aho^'o are the male and female of the Charagia Lignivora, the former bcin"- on 

 the left hand. 



SPECIES 2.— CHARAGIA SPLENDENS.— (Plate II.) 

 PMoiopsyche splendent, Scott, on plate 2, Aus. Lop., and in original Manu.script. 



This beautiful insect, named from the metallic lustre of the male, we believe, has not been figured or described in any 

 work, although in its larva state it is by no means uncommon. In all its primary stages this species bears so strong a 

 resemblance to the preceding one, that we consider it would be mere repetition to dilate further upon a subject already so fully 

 exemplified ; we shall, therefore, confine ourselves to a few general observations, requesting the reader's attention to the previous 

 pages. 



