28 AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA 



In colouring the sexes arc very dissimilar, tiie female presenting a very sober, quaker-like appearance beside her richly-hued 

 mate. The upper wing ot female is elongated, and tlie cosfal and exterior margins sliglitl\- avcdicd; the apical angle rather pointed. 

 The whole upper surface is light olive-grey, suffused with dull piirplihh-l)r()wn near to the anterior angle of lower wing; two rather 

 indistinct transverse bands of brownish-black, forming sliallow scallops within the interspaces of the veins, cross the wings a little 

 beyond the front of the discoidal cell, wliich bears, near its apex, a distinct brownish-black spot; there is also a small blackish 

 spot on each vein, \\here the lower row of scallops intersect. The margins are entire and fringed with grey cilia. The abdomen 

 is stout, and projects as far as the anal angle of the lower wing. Beneath, the colouring is light silvery olive-grey, suffused with 

 purplish-brown on the disc of the upper wing. I'he discoidal spot is larger than on tlie upper surface, and the inner transverse 

 band is distinct, but the outer line of scallops is very faint. 



The male* has the costal margin of the iijiper wing nearly straight, the apical angle rather pointed, and the exterior margin 

 somewhat indented. The upper surface is a rich warm orange-brown ; the upper wing with many transverse zig-zag fascia3 of 

 dark brownish-black colour, and a black discoidal spot. On the under wing the zig-zag fascia are very dark near the anal angle, 

 but faint across the disc. The abdomen is rather short, and black at the extremity. Antennaa blackish-brown. On the under side 

 the upper wing is orange-brown near the base, very dark brown along the exterior margin, and dull olive-brown near the apical 

 angle ; the transverse fascitc are very indistinct, but the blackish discoidal spot is present. The lower wing is reddish-orange 

 near the abdominal margin, and olive-brown at the exterior portion. There are two indistinct transverse fasciaj below the disc, 

 and a dark discoidal spot. Thorax and abdomen reddish-orange ; head and legs olive-brown. The male is very active in its 

 movements, and if alarmed dashes itself about with such violence that its plumage is quickly destroyed. 



Our d lustration shows the caterpillar and its cocoon on a sprig of Eucali/ptus, with the upper and under surfaces of the 

 male moth. 



DARALA HAMATA, Walker.— (Plate XIX., ? ). 



Darala hamala, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus., pt. IV., p. 895 (1855). 

 Eulophocampe anuma, Scott, JIS. 



This exceedingly showy caterpillar is by no means commoii at the Hunter River, where our specimens— in all about 

 half a dozen— were obtained. Some of these were found in March, at Tomago, a settlement about ten miles from the Port of 

 Newcastle ; and others were taken in June near East Maitland, twenty miles from Newcastle. In every instance the caterpillars, 

 like those of the Ocnerid lidinxph, were solitary, feeding in exposed positions upon the young shoots springing from the stumps 

 of the Eucalyptus trees which had been felled during the process of clearing the land for cultivation. 



The full-grown caterpillar attains to '.U inches, and is cylindrical, elongated, and densely pilose above; beneath smooth, 

 and velvety-black, with a central longitudinal band between the legs, composed of bars and spots of straw colour. From the third 

 to the eleventh segment the body is covered above with dense short hair, like velvet pile, bright chestnut-red in the centre of the 

 segments, but almost black at the sides, near the segmental divisions. On the posterior edge of each segment are five plumes, or 

 brushes, of fine hair nearly half an inch long and of extreme whiteness and purity, the centre or dorsal row being wedge-shaped, 

 and, like the others, bending gracefully backwards towards the tail of the caterpillar. On each segment, immediately in front of these 

 white plumes, is an annular row of round yellow tubercles, four in number, each emitting a bunch of stiff shortish hair, either 

 chestnut-red or black in colour, and also a few white hairs nearly an inch in length. Below the stigmata, and in a line with the 

 four yellow tubercles, are smaller round tubercles arranged in pairs, and l)elow these again, close to the feet, is another small 

 tubercle. All these tubercles emit bunches of shortish chestnut-red, black, or white hairs. There is also a tubercle near the 

 centre of the segments, on each side of the dorsal line, and from these tul^crcles on the fourth segment proceed long pencils of white 

 hair. The three anterior and two posterior segments are also tuberculated, but are so densely pilose that the tuberculations are not 

 visible. Anteriorly the thick fringes of black or white hairs— some half, and others fully one inch long— bend forwards in an 

 inverse direction to the silky-white plumes, and form a sort of double ruff which completely hides the head. The posteric 



tenor 



• [Mr. Meyrick's descHptio,. of the male (Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Australia, XIV., p. 192) was drawn up from Mr. Scott's original specimens, now in the collection 



ot the Australian Museum). 



