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being of an obscure greyish-brown tinged with green, and having 
the head dark brown, the tubercles, both dorsal and lateral, 
brownish-black, and the last abdominal segment (that bearing the 
anal claspers) ochreous. In form it is more attenuated and less 
robust. My observations go to show that throughout the life of the 
animal its tendency is to increase in width, the adult larva being 
proportionately of greater girth, and capable of less extension 
than the young. In its fully grown state, particularly when 
about to change to the pupa, it bears a striking resemblance to 
the larvae of certain Saw-flies or Tenthredinidse, many of which, 
like the moth under consideration, are internal feeders, but this 
likeness is only superficial, as the number of the feet, and the 
position of the spiracles, clearly indicate its lepidopterous nature ; 
and I may add its general structure accords with what we know 
of the larva) of the family Phycitidco. 
The pupa or chrysalis is reddish-brown, and is enclosed in an 
elongate tough cocoon, composed of coarse grey silk. Usually 
the cocoon is placed at the entrance to the burrow in which the 
larva has lived, but sometimes it is found attached to the stem of 
the food-plant. In no case did I observe them upon the leaves, 
although in a few instances I saw three or four cocoons spun 
together in a mass and attached to a twig ; in every instance, 
however, they were found near the burrows from which the larvae 
had made their escape. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE II. 
Fig. 1. E'picroc is terebrans, Ollitf S . 
2. Outline of same showing natural size. 
i9 3. Venation of same. Forewing 11 veins; hindwing 9 veins. 
„ 4. Larva of same about two-thirds grown. 
tf 5. Larva of same about to pupate. 
G. Pupa of same, and portion of cocoon. 
7, 8, and 9. Stems or “ leaders ” of Red Cedar showing borings 
of larva), cocoons, and pupa in situ. 
NOTE ON PIEZO RII YN C HU S LEUCOTIS , GOULD, 
P YCNOPTIL US FLOCCOSUS , GOULD, AND OTHERS 
RARE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
By E. P. Ramsay. 
Piezorhynchus leucotis has hitherto been recorded only from 
Queensland and northwards therefrom, but I have recently had an 
opportunity of examining a fresh specimen shot in a dense part 
of a damp scrubby gully in one of the gorges of the Blue 
