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APPEXDIX. 



Caterpillar whitish; feeds on the mulberry, lettuce, &c.: chrysalis brown, 

 enclosed in a dense cocoon, composed of fine silk, sometimes exceeding 300 

 yards in length. 



I hare merely noticed this truly valuable insect, inasmuch as Albin has figured 

 it, in all its phases, in order to state that it has no pretensions for admission 

 amongst our indigenous insects, being a native of the tropics, and having 

 been introduced into Europe (Italy) in the time of the Emperor Justinian. 



Page 61. Orgvia gonostigma. C«r//.y, i'. viii. ^j/. 378, $ and 9. 



Page 65. Genus LXV (a). ARCTURUS, Curtis. 



"Antennas composed of numerous joints, covered with scales above, each 

 joint in the male producing two long rays, ciliated and terminated by a 

 bristle; tropin undiscovered. Head clothed with short scales in front, and 

 with long hairy scales on the crown ; eyes large, globose : thorax densely 

 clothed wdth very long decumbent hairs : abdomen short, completely 

 covered with down, the apex producing a fascicle of hairs as long as the 

 body in the male : wings deflexed when at rest, densely clothed with scales ; 

 superior (anterior) sublanceolate, rounded at the apex ; inferior (posterior) 

 rather small and suborbicular, very hairy at the base ; cilia thick and 

 entire." — Curtis, I. c. 



•j-Sp. 1. Sparshalli. Curtis,v.\n.pl.SS6. " Alis sericeis ochraceo-albis, thorace 

 antice rufescente, tibiis anterioribus antice nigro-Juscis, caudd Jlavescente." 

 (Exp. Alar. 1 unc. 6 ? lin.) 



" Male cream-colour ; rays of antennae ochreous ; eyes cinereous, surrounded 

 with black ; anterior portion of the thorax pale reddish-brown ; tuft of hairs 

 at the apex of the abdomen pale yellow ; wings glossy, with the nervures of a 

 dull and pale purplish tint, especially the superior (costal) towards the 

 base; anterior tibiae in front, as well as the basal joint of the tarsi, deep 

 brown : all the tarsi beneath ochreous : pulvilli brown." " Captured by 

 J. Sparshall, Esq. in a lane near Homing, early in the morning of the 7th of 

 August, 1829." — Curtis, L c. 



The name Arcturus having been previously employed by Latreille amongst 

 the Crustacea, must be changed; I therefore propose Trichiocercus 

 {OpiK villus, Kepxoe Cauda). 



Page 67. KvPEKCoyiPA, Hubner? — I here 'remark, "that I am not certain 

 whether this be the typeof theHypercompae of Hubner," — spelt Hypercampae 

 by Kirby and Curtis, — a point I now draw attention to, from the circum- 

 stance that, until very recently, I did not possess the means of ascertaining 

 Hubner's genera, being compelled to follow the bungling references to them by 

 Ochsenheimer and Treitschke ; and their great incorrectness has induced me 

 to extract the whole of the indigenous genera and species, so far as I know 

 them, and to subjoin them at the end of this Appendix, and thereby enable 

 the reader to judge for himself as to the application of Hubner's name 



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