88 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
the common English Ladybird (Leis conformis), and 
slightly more elongate. The female is often almost twice 
the size of the male, and still more elongate. The eggs 
are rough, elongate, dull yellow in colour, attached on 
end in clusters, wholly encircling the young shoots of 
Eucalyptus, wpon which the young larvae feed. The 
newly-emerged larvae are white, with black heads, and 
feed gregariously. The older larvae, however, feed singly, 
and when full-grown are % to 34 of an inch long, dull 
cream in colour, with a large black spot on the first thoracic 
segment, from which a widening and darkening dorsal 
dark band runs backwards. There are six lateral spots, and 
the head is black. The larvae pupate beneath the soil. All 
stages may be commonly found on young eucalypts during 
November. 
Galleruca semipullata (FKigleaf Beetle) is of a smoky- 
brown colour, elongate in form, measuring about half-inch; 
the elytra are very flimsy. The eggs are dull brown, 
rough, and elongate, and are laid in patches up to the 
size of a threepenny piece in the fig leaves. The very 
young larvae are dull brown, and feed gregariously until 
about half-grown. As well as feeding on wild figs, they 
do considerable damage in the orchard, even attacking the 
young figs. They pupate beneath the soil. 
Oedonestis australasiae is a thick-set moth with rather 
a heavy body. It is about 114 inches in expanse, and of 
a dark fawn colour, the forewings being slightly marked, 
the hindwings unmarked. The palpi are very long and 
conspicuous. The specimen exhibited was bred from a 
larva found at Ryde on September 11th, 1914, feeding on 
Acacia longifolia. It pupated on September 17th. The 
imago emerged on October 9th. The larva is 114 inches 
long, light grey tinged with pink, and has a dorsal row of 
nine round purple blotches. The ventral surface is flat, 
the sides being much extended and covered with hairs; and 
so the larva is very difficult to detect when at rest, with 
its hairy flange-like sides and eryptic markings, which re- 
semble the bark of its food plant. The pupa is enclosed 
in a light silken cocoon amongst the leaves of the food 
plant. 
Cacaecia post-vittana.—A female of this species laid 
over 200 small flat blob-shaped eggs, resembling those of 
the Codlin Moth, but laid in clusters. The eggs hatched 
in eight or nine days. The larvae of this species feed on 
