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oaks in garden. Another fine species is also found on 
Loranthus, viz., Ophiodes parcemacula , Lucas. 
No. 15. Calogramma f estiva (the festive crin'um moth). 
A very fine and beautifully decorated insect, but its 
larva, also prettily marked, is of a gregarious nature, 
and very destructive to crinums, particularly our C. 
pedunculatum • It is a specially disagreeable insect to 
rear, and in its habits abominably nasty, but has no ob- 
jectionable smell. We have known it from other Crinums 
and also rarely Hippeastrum , but have not found it on 
other Amaryltiacecie. There is another moth whose 
larva feeds gregariously on the Crinum ; it is a species of 
Brithys , and may be known from the black and white 
marbled caterpillar. 
No. 16. Aristeis hepialleUa is not found aibo'ut the 
house, but is noteworthy for its curious spiral case formed 
of silk with fragments of leaves shingled regularly over 
it. It is found on various gums, but is difficult to rear. 
No. 17. Trichetra mesomelas. — This insect, with No. 
16, is somewhat outside my remarks. Not long ago I 
found some beautiful hairy larvae, heavily crested dor- 
sally, on a solitary gum tree at Bulimba Point. As I 
had not far to go for fresh leaves I bred them out and 
found it to be a not uncommon southern species. I had 
also obtained a number of pupae of this in the forest 
on the edge of a sand plain, about 18 miles north of 
Cunderdin, in West Australia, but did not see the larvae. 
When they reached the imaginal stage, knowing the 
species was common, 1 did not further trouble about 
them. The fact, however, is interesting as showing the 
wide range of this as of many other Australian insects. 
This concludes the special remarks, though much 
might be said of other species, several of which are very 
rare, as for instance, Encrostis iocentra and Iodis iosticta , 
Atelocentra chloraspis , Hypochroma quadril partita &Cono- 
gethes nubifera. The emerald moths are a very attractive 
group, and much more has been learnt about them since 
the habits of some were first mentioned by me in the 
Trans. Nat, Hist. Soc. of QTd., Yol. 1, 1892/4, p. 85. 
