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acacia, orange, and lemon (Fernald), are certainly wrong, as it was found 
only on a small native bush " about two or three feet high with small 
pinnate leaves." From a specimen sent, Miss S. Stent, of the Division of 
Botany, has kindly determined the plant as Cliffortia serrulata (Engl.) 
Diels. 
Unfortunately I have not been able to refer to the original description 
of leery a natalensis. Moreover, there were no specimens in the collection 
which could possibly represent this species, a difficulty overcome, how- 
ever, by receiving notes and slides from Mr. Cooper. The following are 
extracts : — 
" I. nataleyisis was always uncommon, and I only knew of it in two 
places, from both of which it disappeared before 1897, and I have not seen 
it since. I find I made the following notes in 1896 : — 
Larva, newly hatched : Colour reddish-brown ; length 0*70 mm., 
breadth 0-37 mm. Antennae : Length 042 mm., 6-jointed ; 6(4.3.2)5.1. 
? , 3rd stage : Antennae 9-jointed, joints of about equal length. Body 
covered with white cottony secretion and several long hairs. 
Adult: Antennae 11-jointed ; 11(1.2)3(10.9.8.7.6)5.4, clavate, cylin- 
drical ; 25 to 30 hairs, sensory on last joint, about 12 similar hairs on 
other joints; length about 1'78 mm. 
Feet : Two upper and two lower digitules. 
Ungue : End somewhat blunt and rounded on upper edge. 
Body : With long hairs and numerous spinnerets ; covered with white 
secretion ; makes a long cottony ovisac from which it becomes detached. 
Since writing this morning I have been able to go down to the Illovo, 
and found two specimens of /. natalensis. I cut off a small branch with 
one which I am sending by post, and I left the other. Neither is full 
grown. I find from my notes that they are mature in April ; but the 
present stage is interesting, being just prior to making the egg-sac. There 
are two or three of the shrubs near each other, but both the insects were 
on a branch overhanging the bank. I will keep a look-out later for others. 
As far as I remember I have never seen more than seven at a time on 
these bushes, and have not found them elsewhere, and I used to search 
the banks for them. There was one shrub of the same plant near Byrne 
where there were a few, the only two places where either Mr. Ward or I 
ever found them." 
The living specimen which accompanied this letter was a young ? , 
7 mm. long and about 4 mm. broad. It had no white waxy covering, and 
the body was bright orange-chrome in colour. The venter is fiat, the 
dorsum somewhat convex with the median thoracic area raised in three 
rounded elevations. The grooves and depressions appear grey, with the 
sides lightly sprinkled with yellowish powder. The legs and antennae are 
fuscous. 
