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ST. HELENA. 
quarters of an inch in length, with dark, longitudinal markings, and 
a white spot on each wing ; rather abundant on the high land, 
where it flies into houses at night, two or three at a time. The 
larva is the large fat brown caterpillar, which is so very destructive 
in gardens. The chrysalis is of a mahogany colour, generally buried 
without much protection under the surface of the soil, and chiefly 
under grass borders of flower beds. It inhabits also North and 
South America, Tlindostan, Australia, and New Zealand. 
L. punctosa, Treit. — A pale grey Moth, about an inch in 
length, with a small white spot in the centre of each wing, and a 
double row of small black spots along the extremities of the 
wings. The caterpillar is smooth, in colour light brown, with dark 
brown (approaching to black at each joint) and nearly white longitu- 
dinal markings. When about to change to the chrysalis it conceals 
itself under stones. Inhabits also South Europe. 
F am. Orthosidce. 
Anclioscelis, Gfuen. 
*A. insularis, Walk. — Of this native Moth, Mr. Walker gives the 
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following description : — “ Male brown, cinereous beneath. Front 
with two' black bands. Palpi porrect, hardly extending beyond the 
head; third joint conical, less than one-fourth of the length of the 
second. Antennae minutely pubescent. Abdomen and hindwings 
cinereous, the former crested near the base. Forewings with three 
irregular undulating double transverse lines ; first line very near the 
base ; second antemedial ; third postmedial ; orbicular and reni- 
form marks white, of the usual form. Hindwings brown about the 
exterior border. Length of the body six lines ; expansion of the 
forewings fifteen lines. Female ochraceous, stout. Palpi porrect, 
not extending beyond the head; third joint minute, short-conical, 
not more than one-sixth of the length of the second. Abdomen 
brown ; apical tuft ochraceous. Forewings, with the orbicular mark, 
represented by a whitish, blackish-bordered point, which is contiguous 
to a black zigzag transverse line ; reniform, represented by a narrow 
black lunule whose disk is of the ground colour; an exterior white 
blackish-bordered zigzag line, which forms the inner border of a 
brownish band, whose outer border is incompletely blackish ; 
underside with a blackish disk, excepting a space which includes 
