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CALLIMORPHA JACOB.E.E. 



The pink Underwing or Cinnabar Moth. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Lithosiidae. 



Type of the Genus, Phalsena Jacobae^ Linn. 



Callimorpha Lat., Goda., Curt. — Lithosia Och., Haiv. — Bombyx 

 Fab. — Noctua Linn. 



Antennce inserted close to the eyes on the crown of the head, 

 short, slender and capillary, clothed with scales, pubescent be- 

 neath in the male, with a row of short bristles on each side, 

 every joint producing two bristles (1 «). 



Maxilla considerably shorter than the antennae and spiral (3). 

 Labial palpi small, short, porrected nearly horizontally, clothed 

 with scales, longest on the basal joint beneath, triarticulate, 

 basal joint the stoutest, 2nd a little shorter, 3rd of the same 

 length ovate -conic (4 a). 

 Head small, rounded and clothed with short hairy scales : eyes globose 

 lateral and promineiit : ocelli 2, placed behind the antenna (7 a pro- 

 file, 1 front view of head). Thorax small. Abdomen linear and 

 obtuse in the male, stouter shorter and somewhat conical in the female. 

 Wings forming a triangle when at rest. Legs rather short and 

 stout : tibiee short, anterior with an internal spine, the others with a 

 ■pair of short stout spurs at the apex, the posterior dilated towards 

 the extremity, with a pair of spurs also below the middle (8 f) : tarsi 

 of equal length and 5 -jointed, the posterior a little the stoutest : claws 

 and pulvilli small. 

 Caterpillars with 6 pectoral, 8 abdominal, and 2 anal feet, changing to 



chrysalides under ground. 

 Pupae short obtuse and strongly punctured, unarmed at the apex. 



Jacob.e.e Linn. — Curt. Guide, Gen. 823. 1. 



Pale dull black, head and thorax with a deep blue tint ; superior 

 wings with a bright sanguineous stripe parallel to the costa but 

 not reaching the apex, with an abbreviated one on the interior, 

 and 2 spots of the same colour on the posterior margin : inferior 

 wings sanguineous, deep rose colour at the base, the superior 

 margin and the cilia as far as the anal angle pale black. 



In the Author s and other Cabinets. 



It has been lone; known that the most decided marks of di- 

 stinction in the Bombycidae, are the pectinated antennae of the 

 males, and the imperfect development of the proboscis or 

 maxillae, which are formed of two flat and not spiral lobes, or 

 altogether wanting, as in many of the Arctiidee, whereas the 

 Lithosiidae are characterized by a long spiral proboscis, and 



