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****** is Huebner's " CM* Moth," and the insect is figured feeding 
on a twig of Eucalyptus pol',nth<-mos (Red Box) in C. French's " Destructive Insects 
of Victoria," Part IV. Froggatt calls it the " Leaf Case Moth," for obvious reasons. 
Kntameta ignabilis, the " Lictor Case Moth," because of the number of little 
stii-ks. is figured by McCoy (his plates are coloured and admirable), and is said by him 
to rl.i.-tly frequent Eucalypts. These moths use materials from different families of 
plant, f.ir t li.-ir cases or bags. See Plate XXV of Froggatt' s work. 
The beautiful Ribbed Case Moth (Thyridfypteryx herrichii) was, in its native state 
(Mr. Froggatt tells me), a rare Case Moth, but since Sugar Gums (E. dadocalyx) have 
been planted so extensively on the N.S.W. Irrigation Areas, it has spread to them in 
enormous numbers, and has done a good deal of damage. 
Family Limacodidae (Cup or Slug Moths). 
In his " Destructive Insects of Victoria," Part IV, C. French figures" The Mottled 
Cup Moth" (Doratifera vulnerans) and the " Painted Cup Moth" (Limacodeslongerans). 
The larvae, and also the cocoons, resembling the eggs of a small bird, are known to every- 
one. The larvae have done much damage to trees of Eucalyptus rostrata, and indeed of 
other species of the genus, feeding on the leaves. Froggatt (p. 247) says that Doratio- 
phora quadriguttata destroys much of the foliage of Gum trees. He found it common 
near Gosford, N.S.W. Scott figures D. lewini " On the young foliage of a species of 
Eucalyptus." 
Doratiophora casta is figured in Scott's " Australian Lepidoptera," with the 
larvae feeding on Eucalyptus longifdia ( Woollsii) in the Sydney district. Mr. Scott says 
we " have procured them both at the Turon and in our immediate vicinity on the Lower 
Hunter, the distance between the two places being fully 130 miles. They feed upon 
the leaves of various Eucalypti, principally confining themselves to the upper surface, 
which they speedily consume, leaving untouched the inferior epidermis and the nervures, 
RO that fr.om their congregated numbers, the boughs of the tree which they infest appear 
as if scorched by a hot wind, the leaves being shrivelled or rolled up." Mr. W. J. 
Rainbow, Rec. Aust. Mus. V, 253, Plate XXIX (1904), has a photo of the larvae on a 
twig from the Bathurst district. 
Family Arctiideae (Tiger Moths). 
The larva* of most species are short hairy grubs, and are known as " Woolly Bears." 
Mr. Froggatt (Agric. Gaz. N.S.W., xi, 647) figures Nda metattopa Walker, which he 
found was a pest in a Botany (near Sydney) nursery, amongst the seedlings oiEucdlyptus 
ficifolia. It was said to be an established pest, frequently disfiguring numbers of the 
seedlings by stripping off their foliage. It is a silvery grey moth with the forewings 
marked with darker coppery tints (Froggatt, p. 250). This moth, which has been 
called the Seedling Gum Moth, has done extensive damage to Red Gum (E. rostrata) 
forests on the Murray River (Deniliquin district). See a description and a plate, W. \V. 
Froggatt (Agric. Oaz. N.S.W., March, 1919, p. 203). 
