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755. 



DRYMONIA DODON.EA. 



The marbled brown or Kitten likeness. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Bombycidae. 



Type of the Genus, Bombyx Dodonsea Wien. Verz. 



Drymoni A Hub. — Dimorpha/fM^., Curt. — Chaonia Step. — Notodonta 

 Och. — Bombyx Hub., Haw., Goda. 



Antenna inserted on each side of the crown, rather short, basal 

 joint with an elongated brush of scales above, the remainder 

 bipectinated in the males (1 (J), the rays moderately long and 

 slender, ciliated with very fine long hairs beneath, gradually 

 decreasing in length to the apex : very slender and simple in 

 the female, pubescent beneath, with a bristle on each joint ( ? ). 

 Maxilla not longer than the palpi, formed of 2 parallel tapering 

 lobes (3). 



Labial palpi small, porrected nearly horizontally, seal)', clothed 

 with long hairs beneath (4), triarticulate, basal joint large, gib- 

 bose beneath at the apex, 2nd stout, longer, obovate, the apex 

 oblique, 3rd small, vertical-oval (4 a). 

 Head short : eyes small and sunk. Thorax subquadrate. Abdomen 

 tolerably long, linear, semicylindric, the apex tufted and truncated 

 in the male, shorter and ovate- conic in the female. Wings deflexed 

 in repose, superior somewhat lanceolate-ovate, the apex rounded: 

 inferior moderate and rounded : cilia thick. Legs woolly, short : 

 tibiae densely woolly outside ; anterior with an internal spine, inter- 

 mediate and hinder spurred at the apex, the latter with a pair of 

 short spurs a little above them: tarsi 5-jointed, basal joint the 

 longest : claws and pulvilli minute (Sf hind leg). 

 Larvae naked, with 6 pectoral, 8 abdominal and 2 anal feet. Pupae 

 subterranean, sometimes inclosed in a slight cocoon. 



DoDON^A Wien. Verz. — Curt. Guide, Gen. 802, 2. 



Male ochreous- white ; antennae subferruginous ; a large patch 

 between the anterior coxae brown, apex of lateral and central 

 tlioracic lobes deep brown ; abdomen ochreous ; superior wings 

 with the basal half brownish freckled, with 2 basal black sinuated 

 strigae, the space between them ochreous, a white sublunate 

 fascia across the middle clouded with ochre, the outer margin 

 formed of a blackish denticulated irregular striga forming a 

 large patch on the costa, with an interrupted line of dots on 

 the inside, the marginal nervures brown with small clouds be- 

 tween them ; cilia neatly chequered with brown : inferior wings 

 with a light fuscous obscure fascia, nervures darker ; cilia dark 

 ochreous faintly spotted with brown. Female smaller : thorax 

 and superior wings griseous, the fascia scarcely paler and the 

 brown strigae and patches, less marked: inferior wings more 

 fuscous. 



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