HARPYIA BANKSTJE. 165 
colour is greenish-yellow, each segment with an 
oblique whitish stripe directed backwards. All the 
segments have round uhite spots surrounded with 
})lack on the lower parts, and on each side rather 
above the middle, from the fourth to the eleventh 
segment inclusively, there is a cluster of three or 
four round white spots placed on a black ground. 
The anal segment bears a small black horn, and 
wants the upper lateral spots. This caterpillar feeds 
on the Banksia lUdfoUa^ and when near its trans- 
formation, it is, to use Le win's words, of consider- 
able bulk, very showy, and in general a great de- 
voured He found it change to a pupa in February, 
spinning on the surface of the earth a slight web or 
cell, and collecting about it some fragments of earth 
and leaves in order to disguise it. It remained in 
this dormant state thirty-six days, and was on the 
wing in March, The moth occurs in the neigh- 
bourhood of Sidney. 
ARCTIID^. 
]\rANY of the families into which the nocturnal 
Lepidoptera have been divided by authors, however 
distinct they may appear when viewed at their ex- 
treme points of difference, comprise species of so 
ambiguous a character, that it is not easy to pre- 
