Zoology.'] NATURAL HISTORY OF VICTORIA. [Insects. 



on the Gum Trees (Eucalyptus), on which I have figured it. It is 

 comparatively rare about Melbourne. 



Explanation of Figures. 



Plate 8. — Fig. 5, male, natural size, the left hand-disconnected pair of wings showing the 

 coloring of the under side. Fig. 6, female, natural size, the left disconnected pair of wings 

 showing the under side. Fig. 7, larva, natural size, on the natural food, the Loranthus. Fig. 8, 

 pupa, natural size. 



Plate 8, Figs. 9 to 13. 



AGAEISTA GLYCINE (Lewin sp.). 



The Vine Day-moth. 



Description. — Rich brownish-black, with a slight purplish reflection. Male — 

 Upper side: anterior wing's, with three or four narrow obliquely transverse angulated 

 pale greyish-yellow lines ; one broader short subtriangular or oblong spot between 

 them and the broad transverse discoidal band, which is strongly undulated or 

 angularty indented at the sides, both of a sulphur-yellow color ; beyond the band 

 are seven or eight radiating narrow yellowish-white lines coinciding with the veins ; 

 a small narrow short marginal band of pale-yellow at apex ; posterior wings with 

 distinct yellow spot near middle, and a narrow pale-yellow edge to the margin. 

 Under side: anterior wings, with the narrow transverse basal lines obsolete, but the 

 yellow trigonal spot and transverse band larger than on the upper side, the whitish 

 radiating neural striae less distinct than on upper side ; posterior wings, with a broad 

 lunate yellow band in middle, the upper end curving along the anterior margin to 

 the base, the edge margined with pale-yellow; between the disc band and the 

 margin a concentric row of seven or eight slightly-connected small pale-yellow 

 spots. Head, body, and thorax black, with five narrow longitudinal pale greyish- 

 yellow lines on the thorax, and two on the head ; posterior end of abdomen rich 

 rusty-buff, as well as the upper edge of penultimate segment and under edges of 

 other segments and the thighs ; feet black, ringed with white; length of body, 8 \ 

 lines; width from tip to tip, 2 inches. Female larger and with broader wings than 

 the male, but identical in coloring of upper and lower surfaces with the male, except 

 that there is no yellow spot in middle of upper surface of posterior wings ; length of 

 body, 10 lines ; width from tip to tip, 2 inches 2 lines. 



Larva about 2 inches in length and 2 \ lines in diameter, of a greenish-yellow 

 color, closely marked with very numerous transverse interrupted and irregularly 

 undulated lines and polygonal spots of jet-black, with numerous scattered long 

 slender white hairs ; the head and next segment fulvous-brown, spotted with black ; 

 the antepenultimate segment with a row across the back of four large quadrate 

 carmine red spots. Pupa about 11 lines long and 3 lines in diameter. Enclosed 

 in an oval cocoon, formed of particles of earth outside lined with silk inside ; the 

 whole so light that the pupa can be seen through it. About 1 inch 3 lines long, 

 and 6 lines wide. 



Reference. — Phalsenoides glycine. Lewin Lepidop. Ins. N. S. Wales, t. 1. 

 Agarista id., Boisduval Voy. de 1' Astrolabe, p. 175. 



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