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CRYPToPHASA RUBESCENS.' 
large stems of which it bores deep cylindrical holes, 
generally in the axillae of the branches. It sallies 
out only by night, and brings to its dwelling whole 
leaves of the broad foliage of this tree with dex- 
terity and great labour, exhibiting many marks of 
sagacity in its progress, and when it arrives at the 
entrance to its retreat, it raises up the covering 
with its hinder parts and slips into its cell back- 
wards, dragging the leaf after it, the extreme end of 
the stalk being held artfully in its jaws. It does 
not quit its hold till the leaf be almost entirely 
within its cell, where it fastens it down, together 
with the covering of the entrance, by a web. It 
changes to a pupa within this cell, in January, 
making no web ; it remains thus thirty days, and is 
on the wing in February, when it frequents the 
tops of lofty trees. 
C. rcbkscens. — Anterior wings yellowish-clay coloured, 
tinged with rose-colour ; posterior wings orange-yellow ; 
abdomen with a square mark of red at the base. Ex- 
pansion, female two inches ; male, an inch and a half. 
Lewin, pi. 12. 
The larva is a nocturnal feeder, like the rest of 
this tribe, and does not differ much in its habits 
from the preceding species. It lodges in the stems 
of the Mimosa ensi/olia, having the entrance to its 
gallery secured by a covering of excrement, which is 
held fast, when the inmate is within, by a web. 
The leaves of the mimosa are lanceolate, and of 
such a length as to preclude the possibility of being 
taken wholly within; the greater part of the leaf 
