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not quite certain as to the identification of the species, as the 
median belt of the forewings is much more distinctly defined, 
and the colour is a duller green than is usual in C. szmzlata. 
Lyrcea alectoraria, Walk.—Larva large, about 25 mm. long. 
General colour bright green or yellowish green: Lateral line 
yellow ; legs purplish-red ; below darker green. The anal seg- 
ment is produced backward into a short pointed conical projec- 
tion, and about the last segments there are traces of a purplish. 
red median dorsal line ; the ventral side between the prolegs is 
suffused with purplish-red. There is some variation in the depth 
of colour of this larva; one from the broadleaf was much yel- 
lower, and had a yellow dorsal stripe. Beaten from the broad- 
leaf and from Veronica salicifola, in April. 
Z ylobara productata, Walk.—Larva reddish-brown, about 22 
mm. long. Beaten in February from a fine-leaved Tutu (Coria- 
via). .(See\N.Z. Journ. Sc.,. May, ‘1834, p. 1r7.) 
Mr. Meyrick’s forecast as to the colour of the hindwings in 
the female is mistaken, for a female I bred out exactly resem- 
bles the male, and has ochreous hindwings. 
Pseudocoremia lupinata, Feld.—Larva about 25 mm. long ; 
dark greyish-brown, variously marked ; feeding on Leptospermum 
ericoides. Larvain January. (See N.Z. Journ. Sc., May, 1884, 
oni: 
: IE pidonap soil melinata, Feld—Larva about 20 mm. long ; 
dull green, with darker longitudinal striations. Beaten from N. 
Z. Broom (Carmichaelia) in February. There must be some 
other commoner food-plant, as the moth is common everywhere 
even where the N.Z. Broom is not to be found. (See N.Z. Journ. 
Sc., May, 1884, p. 117.) 
Barsine panagrata, Walk.—Larva about 23 mm. long, some- 
what cylindrical, and of uniform diameter. The larve seem as 
variable as the wings, or else my descriptions must refer to dif- 
ferent stages. Some are green, with a purplish-red subdorsal 
line a little to each side of the middle of the back, and with no 
median dorsal line; there are some black dashes about the 
seventh, eighth, and ninth segments; underside whitish-green. 
Others had the dorsal surface brown, with indistinct markings. 
This larva is recorded by Professor Hutton as on Avisfotelza, but 
I have got it very commonly from the pepper-tree (Drimys), 
whose leaves are usually found mutilated by its attacks. Larva 
in December and January. 
Declana floccosa, \Wallk.—Its larva is very distinct and easily 
recognised. When full-grown it is fully 30 mm. long, tapering 
gradually from anal segment to head, and of a marled reddish- 
brown colour. In transverse section it is nearly an exact semi- 
circle, the ventral side forming the diameter, and the skin is ,ro- 
duced into lateral fringes, which are usually pinkish-red. The 
dorsal surface is mottled with various indistinct tracings, and 
much resembles the bark of Arzstotelia. There are twelve legs, 
and the underside is greenish, often suffused with pink. There 
is a small prominence bearing two raised points on the twelfth 
