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715. 



CLOSTERA ANACHORETA. 



The scarce Chocolate-tip. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Bombycidae. 



Type of the Genus, Bombyx curtula Linn. 



Clostera Hoff., Curt. — Pygaera Och. — Bombyx Zww., Haw., Goda. 

 Antennee very short, curved, inserted close to the back of the 

 head, bipectinated, the rays long and hairy in the male {I ^) 

 but decreasing in length to the apex, the base concealed by 

 a ring of scales ; much shorter in the female ( ? ), slightly pu- 

 bescent internally, with a bristle at the apex of each. 

 Maxilla: very short, concealed by the palpi, formed of 2 distorted 

 compressed broad lobes, cuvred and attenuated at the apex (3). 

 Labial palpi stout, directed obliquely or nearly vertically, densely 

 scaly (4), triarticulate, basal joint cleaver-shaped, 2nd twice as 

 long and nearly linear, 3rd minute oval (4 a). 

 Head very short, bent under the breast in repose : eyes large but very 

 much concealed : (7 a, the profile). Thorax quadrate, crested behind. 

 Abdomen attenuated, the apex elevated when at rest, tufted and trun- 

 cated, the tuft elongated and sometimes furcated in the male. Wings 

 defiexed in repose, rather short ; superior subtrigonate, truncated ob- 

 liquely, the apex rounded ; inferior trigonate, rounded : cilia short. 

 Legs short and stout : tibiae densely scaly, the anterior appearing 

 dilated, with a stout internal spine (8) ; the others with small spurs 

 at the apex, the hinder with a pair also a little above the apex : tarsi 

 5-jointed, anterior producing long scales on the outside, the others 

 with the basal joint elongated, the following short : claws and pul- 

 villi minute. 

 Larvae hairy and tufted, with 6 pectoral, 8 abdominal and 2 anal feet. 

 Pupse inclosed in a web between the leaves of trees. 



Anachoreta Vill. — Curt. Guide, Gen. 796. 2. 



Cinereous lilac : crown of head and a ring round the base of the 

 antennae deep brown, as well as 3 large spots down the back of 

 the thorax : superior wings with 4 transverse pale strigae, 2 

 straight and oblique before the middle, 3rd flexuose and a little 

 raised ; apical spot large and brown with a lilac bloom towards 

 the extremity, through which the 4th striga passes and forms 

 a white broken line near the apex, with 3 orange freckled patches : 

 towards the posterior margin is an irregular line of black spots, 

 with 1 or 2 larger approaching the posterior angle : abdomen 

 and inferior wings fuscous. 



^In the Cabinets of the British Museum. 



This pretty little group seems to be allied to Ceriira (pi. 193), 

 and is supposed to be related to Pygaera (pi. 530). The short 

 anteniice and shortish wings, with the peculiar spot at the apex 



