. Australian insects. Insects. rj:i'ii)UPTKRA. 2()9 silk, from which tlic moth omorjios hiter on in the season. The majority of these moths are small and unattractive; at the same time we have some brightly green and yellow tinted species of medium size. The caterpillars are slender naked larvae, often green marked with black spots and a few scattered hairs; they are very active and drop to the ground whenever disturbed. These moths are easily separated by specialists from the preceding groups by the structure of the nervures of the hind wings. Several specialists have undertaken their clas- s
. Australian insects. Insects. rj:i'ii)UPTKRA. 2()9 silk, from which tlic moth omorjios hiter on in the season. The majority of these moths are small and unattractive; at the same time we have some brightly green and yellow tinted species of medium size. The caterpillars are slender naked larvae, often green marked with black spots and a few scattered hairs; they are very active and drop to the ground whenever disturbed. These moths are easily separated by specialists from the preceding groups by the structure of the nervures of the hind wings. Several specialists have undertaken their clas- sification: Meyrick (Trans. Ent. Soc. London 1890) placed them as a group containing 8 families: Ragonet (Ann. Ent. Soc. France 1890), while restricting them to 2 families, made 17 smaller divisions which he called tribes: Lower, who partly follows Meyrick, gives i:^ families in his ''Catalogue"; I simply deal with them here as a group, describing a number of typical forms with their life histories. Margarodes rcrtonalis is a handsome bright green moth, with the margins of the outer edges of botli pairs of wings marked with dark reddish brown; it measures about ^^WtV' ^*j ''Initttli^' Fig. 133.—The Coii:mon Flour Moth. Asojyia fnrliialix (Linn.). inches across the wings. The caterpillars, about an inch in length, are bright green mottled with black; the head shin- ing reddish brown. My specimens were collected in the Botanical Gardens, Sydney, at the end of January; they were matting the tips of the branches of one of the ornamental shrubs (Ochrosia nworci) into irregular rounded masses. They pupated a week later and emerged before the end of the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Froggatt, W. W. (Walter Wilson), 1858-; Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NC
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