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as Codiaeum (Croton of the horticulturists’ shops) and 
Acalypha . It also is an example of variation like No. 4. 
No. 7. Nyctemera secundiana (the cineraria pest) 
attacks Compositae , especially of the tribe Senecionideae , 
and has found that the beautiful introduced cineraria is 
particularly to its taste, as also colts-foot. 
No. 8. Prodenia littoralis, is another common garden 
pest. The specimen exhibited is a male; the female is 
larger and not quite so well marked. 
No. 9. Zinckenia recurvalis (Amaranthus pest). — The 
caterpillar of this distinctly marked moth plays havoc 
amongst the Celosias and Amaranths, the gorgeous foliage 
of the latter being utterly ruined and rendered so un- 
sightly that they have to be pulled up and destroyed 
before they reach their full splendour. The insect is a 
member of the Pyralidae (Pearl Moths). 
No. 10. Iodis pier oides (an emerald moth). — This moth 
does not occur in sufficient numbers to be termed a pest, 
but is notable for its strange caterpillar and also the 
great difference in the sexes. The larva like a bit of 
jagged, dried-up leaf, may be found on cherry guava, 
rose, etc., but in the forest on small gum bushes. Its 
nearest congener is Jodis insperata from the South of 
Australia, sometimes taken in Queensland. 
No. 11. TJrolitha (Jodis) bipunctiferci (mango emerald 
moth) is not infrequent about the walls and ceiling. 
Judging from the larvae which are found on mango treefe, 
it is widely different from I. pieroides and the related 
/. metaspila, /. partita , and I. marine, but comes near Iodis 
citrolimbaria. 
No. 12. Phacellura indica (the pumpkin pyrale or 
pearl moth). — The caterpillar feeds on the leaves of the 
pumpkin, but I have not found it sufficiently common to 
be termed a pest. 
No. 13. Siriocauta testulalis (the bean pearl moth). — 
This we found when growing beans of the Fiji variety, 
on which it proved rather troublesome, but have not 
noted it on the French or such, which are troubled by 
that minute fly in stems, the only remedy for which is 
to pull up the plants and burn them. 
No. 14. Ophiodes tirrhaca (the Loranthus moth). — 
This does not come into the house, but was bred from 
larvae taken on Loranthus longiflorus parasitic on silky 
