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26 had parasites. 
8 were dead. 
2 contained eggs. 
contained living pupae, 1 male and 1 female 
respectively. 
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In addition to the above-named dipteron the fine ichneu- 
mon-fly (Lchthromorpha intricatoria) has been reared from 
the larva of the present insect. 
Genus 2.—OROPHORA, Fereday. 
Ocelli present. Antennae two-fifths, in male moderately 
bi-pectinated throughout. Labial palpi rudimentary, hairy. Abdo- 
men densely hairy. Fore-wings with veins 4 and 5 short-stalked, 
7 and 8 out of 9. Hind-wings with veins 4 and 5 stalked, parting- 
vein well defined, 8 connected by bar with cell beyond middle, 
an additional vein (9) rising out of 8 before bar. 3 
OROPHORA UNICOLOR. 
(Psyche unicolor, Butl., Proce. Zool. Soc., London, 1877, 381. 
Orophora toumatou, Fereday, Trans. N.Z. Inst. x. 262, pl. 
ix. Orophora wnicolor, Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii. 212.) 
(Plate XLIV., fig. 9 4; Plate III., fig. 18 case of larva.) 
This odd-looking little insect was discovered by Fere- 
day at Rakaia. 

PSYCHIDAE, 
The expansion of the wings is hardly 1 inch. All the wings 
are rather broad, rounded, and very sparsely covered with dusky 
brown hair-like scales; the body is very hairy, and the antennae 
are slightly bi-pectinated. The female is apterous. 
The life-history was thus described by Fereday: ‘‘ I 
have never seen the larva. Its case measures in length 
about 16 lines (12 inches); the exterior is covered with 
pieces of stems of grass from a line to 5 lines in length, laid 
longitudinally and in the manner of thatch; the interior is 
thinly lined with fine silk. The cases are found fixed to 
the twigs of the Wild Irishman (Discaria towmatou), but 
it may be inferred from the covering of the ease, that it 
probably does not feed on the shrub but upon the tussock 
erass, generally growing where the shrub is found. It is 
some years since I found the eases on Discaria toumatou, 
erowing in the river-beds of the Rakaia and Waimakariri, 
on the Canterbury Plains, and I did not find any ease in 
its earlier stage before the larva had fed up and changed 
into the pupa state.’’* 
All Fereday’s specimens were bred from the cases, and 
to the best of my belief no one has ever observed the insect 
on the wing. Cases constructed by the larva have, how- 
ever, been recently found, by Mr. Charles E. Clarke, at 
Mount Ida, Central Otago. 

*Trans. N.Z. Inst. x. (1877), 262. 






