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ENDROMIS VERSICOLOR. 



The Glory of Kent. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Bombycidae. 



Ti/pe of the Genus, Bombyx Versicolor Litin. 

 Endromis Och., Germ., Curt. — Dimorpha Hub. — Bombyx, Linn., 

 Fab., Haw., Goda. 



Aiiteunce inserted close to the eyes, rather short and bipecti- 

 nated, comjiosed of numerous short joints, hairy on the outside, 

 each joint producing 2 rays longer and more pubescent in the 

 male (1), than female (2, a portion towards the base). 

 Maxilla none. 



Labial Palpi attached to the lower part of the head, approxi- 

 mating, very inconspicuous, forming a spreading brush of stiff 

 bristles (4), composed of two very horny joints, basal one long 

 and stout, curved upward and a little narrowed at the apex, 

 2nd joint irregularly ovate (4 a). 

 Males much smaller than the females. Head small and short, clothed 

 with downy scales. Eyes small and globose (7, head in profile). 

 Thorax not very large, woolly and not crested. Abdomen short and 

 woolly, obtuse in the male, ovate-conic in the female. Wings entire, 

 subdiaphanous, forming a triangle in repose ; sujierior subtrigonate 

 in the male, more lanceolate in the female ; inferior rather small and. 

 rounded : cilia very short. Legs very much alike in size and form. 

 Tiiighs clothed with fine long hair beneath. Tibise, anterior not short, 

 ivith a long slender spine on the inside extending beyond the apex (8), 

 posterior with 2 minute spurs only at the apex. Tarsi longer than 

 the tibicE. and 5 -jointed, basal joint the longest. Claws strong and 

 acute. FnWiWi formed of '2 lobes with a ciliated process between them. 

 Lan'se attenuated before, with 6 pectoral 8 abdominal and 2 anal feet, 



having a jjyramidal horn at the apex of the last joint. 

 Pupae loosely inclosed between leaves on the ground. 



Veusicolor Linn. Fau7i. Suec. 294. 1111. — Curt. Guide, Gen. 805. 1. 

 Alale orange brovni : antennae, eyes and outside of tibife and 

 tarsi, black : anterior margin of thorax and sides and tips of 

 lateral lobes white : abdomen blackish at the base, orange at 

 the apex : superior wings with a black striga before the middle, 

 internally whitish, another beyond it angulated at the bottom, 

 whitish externally, a black curved or •< shaped mark on the 

 disc, a very waved and interrupted line towards the posterior 

 margin producing 3 subovate white spots at the apex, one near 

 the middle and an elongated one near the posterior angle, the 

 nervures on the margin yellowish : inferior wings dark orange, 

 with a waved striga across the centre and some patches of brown 

 below. 



Female duller and paler, the inferior wings whitish, similarly 

 marked to the male, but the margin is brown. 

 In the Author s and other Cabinets. 



