84 AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA 



but unfortunately a species of Ichneumon destroyed them before they underwent their second change. The male caterpillar is about 

 1 inch and 3 lines in length, is cylindrical, rather elongate, with two small projections near tlic tail, and with only one pair of 

 abdominal claspers which are placed on the ninth segment. The ground colour is light piiikish-drab, covered with fine continuous 

 longitudinal lines of dark brown ; a row of small brown spots on each side, above the stigmata ; stigmata whitish, with yellow 

 centres ; head with pale drab streak on each side, and striated in front with dark brown. The green variety had a conspicuous 

 black spot on each side of the fifth segment, a dorsal row of faint white spots, and two small white spots on each side of the 

 bifurcate tail. About the middle of February the caterpillars prepared their cocoons of silk, covered with agglutinated earth, just 

 below the surface of the soil, and early in March the perfect insects took wing. 



The chrysalis (fig. 1, male) is 7 lines in length, and throughout light shining reddish-brown. 

 The male moth measures a little over 1| inches. 



The Antenna: male, rather strongly bipectinated to about three-fourths of its length, each pectination finely ciliate and 



terminating in a rather incurved seta (fig. 2). 



The Labial palpi : male (fig. 3 and fig. 4, denuded of hair), moderately large ; basal joint twice as long as middle joint, terminal 

 joint small, slender, and rather obtuse at apex. Basal portion very thickly covered with scales and hair, 

 terminal very thinly covered. The whole projecting forwards, about level with the top of the eyes. 



The Lcijs rather long and slender. Intermediate pair with two, and posterior pair (fig. 5, male) with four longish 



spurs on the tibia3 ; tibisB and tarsi closely covered with feathery scales, and with a long fan-shaped bunch 

 of hair near the base of tibia of posterior leg. 



The wings are horizontal in repose. 



The upper surface of the male moth is creamy-white, delicately speckled with pinkish-brown. Five thin wavy blackish- 

 brown fasciae pass transversely across the upper wing, and between the first and second, and fourth and fifth, of these fasciffi, 

 is a faint band of pale ochreous-yellow. The lower wing has three similar fascite, the pale ochreous-yellow band being between the 

 third and fourth. A row of small blackish spots runs parallel to the exterior margin, which is slightly undulating, and bordered 

 with creamy-white cilia. Antenna, head, thorax, and abdomen, creamy-white, with blackish-brown bars on the patagia, and a 

 double row of blackish-brown spots down the back of abdomen ; base of thorax, and tail, pale ochreous-yellow. The under side 

 is creamy-white with a silvery lustre. Mear the apical angle of both wings is a bronze-brown patch, darkest on the upper wing; 

 and there is also a brownish discoidal spot. 



The flowers and fruit of the Acronychia Baueri are figured, with two larvae and the male moth. 



SELIDOSEMA LUXARIA, GcinIje.— (Plate XXL, (?) 



Hemerophila luxaria, Guenee, Spec. Gen. des Lepid., Vol. IX., p. 220 (1857). 

 Tephrosia disperdita, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus., XXI., p. 416 (1860). 

 Selidosema luxaria, Meyrick, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1891, p. 609 (1892). 

 Oeometra recte-fasciata, Scott, MS. 



This is rather a common species in the neighbouriiood of Sydney, where it may be found in October and November feeding 

 upon the pretty Lrptospcrmiun scopariitm. The female caterpillar measures a little over IJ inches ; the male slightly under. The 

 body is cylindrical, and very little attenuated ; the prevailing colour a light pinkish-drab, shaded with grey, and with many thin, 

 longitudinal black striae and spots, darkest on the sides of the seventh and eighth segments and near the head. About the middle 

 of each segment, near the back, are two very small spines or projections, the pair on the fifth segment being rather the largest; 

 the eleventh segment is slightly tuberculated. The head is pinkish-drab, striated and spotted with black ; the apex is rather 

 acute. The abdominal feet are absent, with the exception of the pair on the ninth segment. 



In November the cocoons were formed, and like the species previously described, were of silk covered externally with fine 

 earth, and placed near the surface of the ground. The chrysalis (fig. 1) measures J inch, and is shining yellowish-red. 



The moths emerged in December and January. The female measures 1 inch and 8 lines, the male 1 inch and 5 lines. 



