The typical species (Genus _Urania_) are found in America, others in Madagascar; but our beautiful forms belong to the Genus _Nyctalemon_, one species of which, _Nyctalemon orontes_, is very common in North Queensland. In the neighbourhood of Cairns a score of this species can often be taken in the early morning resting on the low scrub, and small swarms of them can often be seen flying across the rivers in the middle of the day. This species is a very handsome large velvety black moth marked with broad dull green bands, and having short creamy swallow tails. Several very beautiful species are also found in Southern New Guinea. Family 3. Day Moths. AGARISTIDAE. This family has been lately revised by Hampson (Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae Vol. I. British Museum 1898); he divides them into 55 Genera containing 225 species, of which some typical forms are peculiar to Australia; they are conspicuously coloured and further noticeable from their habit of flying in the daytime. The members of this family are chiefly confined to the tropical parts of the Old World and the Australian region; in America a few only are found in Mexico and Brazil. [Illustration: =Fig. 113.=--_Phalaenoides glycinae_ (Lewin). The Caterpillar and Adult of the Vine Moth. (“Agricultural Gazette,” N.S.W.)] The Vine Moth, _Phalaenoides (Agarista) glycinae_, better known under the old generic name of _Agarista_, is one of our regular vine pests in the caterpillar state, devouring the foliage and young grapes. The moth lays her eggs upon the vine canes; the grubs when full grown measure up to 2 inches; are of a general deep greenish yellow tint, with the whole of the upper surface covered with small tubercles each bearing a single hair; and they have a band of bright red blotches round the dorsal surface of the anal segment. They bury themselves in the ground, forming a dark reddish brown chrysalid enclosed in a primitive cocoon or covering of particles of earth. The moth measures 2¼ inches across the wings, and is of a uniform black colour marbled on the head, thorax, and sides of the wings with white; the fore wings are tipped with white, and an irregular transverse bar of pale yellow is followed by a smaller blotch through the centre; in the hind pair the outer margins are irregularly edged with white. _Phalaenoides tristifica_, formerly known under the name of _Agarista lewinii_, is slightly smaller; the fore wings are more mottled, and the hind pair have an irregular white spot in the centre by which it can be easily identified. _Cruria donovani_, also smaller than the Vine Moth, has the fore wings mottled with a number of small white blotches, and a broad irregular patch in the centre of the hind ones. _Eutrichopidia latina_ comes closer still to the Vine Moth in size and colour, but can also be easily recognised by having a single broader, irregular,