30 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
margin the transverse and radiating veins are nearly all 
forked. About one-quarter of the way from the base we 
have a pinkey red blotch, running from the lower nervure 
across the main one, and about one-quarter of the way to 
the front margin. This is surrounded by a pencil line of 
darker colour. Towards the end of the wing we have an- 
other blotch otf the same colour, about one-eighth of an 
inch wide, starting about the end of the hind nervure, and 
ending a little over half-way to the front one. At this 
point there are two dark spots, resembling eyes, from which 
three double dark coloured lines run upwards. The cen- 
tre one crosses the main nervure near its termination, and 
extends forward to the cross veins. The side ones branch 
out V Fashion. There is also another small, lighter coloured 
spot near the base of the wing, and a number of small 
dark markings along the hind margin. All around the mar- 
gin and along the veins the wing is covered with fine hairs. 
The hind wings are smaller, but are much the same 
in structure. They are paler in colour, and have one dull 
round black blotch about midway between the termination 
of the two nervures. The body is fairly stout, and is 
about three-quarters of an inch long; but as the head is 
generally doubled under, it does not appear that length. 
The eyes are dark and prominent. Antenne over thirty 
jointed, well developed, mandibulate mouth parts, with 
both Maxillae and Labial palps. The eggs are oval and 
dull in colour, and are laid flat, and not stalked like those 
of the green Lace wings. 
The small larvie, when first hatched, appear to be 
nearly all head, and their bodies are covered with fleshy 
tubercles. They are of a light slatey colour. As they de- 
velop the head gets smaller and the body larger, until at 
full-grown they have quite a different appearance. The 
fleshy tubercles also appear to diminish in size, and the 
colour to darken. 
At full-grown the larve are from five-eighths to 
iieree-aUseers of an inch in length from tip of jaws to 
tail. 
The body consists of head and eleven body segments. 
The mouth parts consist of a pair of double-lobed, horny 
processes, which represent the mandibles and maxillae of 
mandibulate forms. The outer one is the widest, and ig 
grooved on the inner side to admit the inner. The in- 
ner one is also slightly grooved, and fits closely into the 
outer, to form a channel through which the juices of the 
victim are conveyed into the buccal cavity. There does 
