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woody districts of Kent and Bedfordshire. I have occasionally met 

 with tlie young larvae at Coombe-wood in the autumn. 



Sp. 2. pudibunda. Alls aJbo-cinereis, anticis macula medifi lunari strigisc/ue 

 tribus undatis fuscis. (Exp. alar. $ 1 unc. 8—11 lin. : $ 1 unc. 10 lin. — 2 

 unc. 6 lin.) 



Ph. Bo. pudibunda. Linne. — Don. v. pi. 160. Da. pudibunda. — Steph. Catal. 

 No. 6007. 



Anterior wings cinereous- white anteriorly, cinereous posteriorly ; the base with 

 an abbreviated fuscous striga, the middle with an irregular ashy-brown fascia^ 

 streaked with fuscous, the hinder margin with an undulated dusky striga, 

 margined posteriorly with whitish, the margin itself generally spotted with 

 dusky ; the central fascia with a lunate stigma, and sometimes with several 

 undulated whitish strigfe : posterior wings whitish-ash, with a dusky streak 

 near the hinder margin, arising at the anal angle, and a central dusky lunule : 

 thorax and abdomen ashy- white; antennae whitish, with ferruginous radii. 

 Female much paler, sometimes nearly white, with the strigae on the anterior 

 wings very distinct. 



Caterpillar hairy, yellow, with the head luteous, the back with four whitish 

 tufts on the back, and a larger reddish one on the tail : it feeds on various 

 trees, and appears in September; the pupa is dusky anteriorly, and brown 

 posteriorly, enclosed in a yellowish folliculus ; the imago appears in June, and 

 varies considerably; but a pupa which was found near Canterbury last 

 autumn, and given to^me, produced the moth in January last : and Albin tells 

 us that he reared his specimens early in February. 



Not uncommon in the neighbourhood of London, especially near 

 Darenth-wood. " Hop-gardens, Kent, common ; the caterpillars 

 called hop-dogs."^ — WIr. Ingpen. " Epping." — M?: H. Doubleday. 

 *' Very common at Kimptcn.'" — Rev. G. T. Rudd. 



Genus LXII. — Demas* mihi. 



Palpi extremely short, enveloped in hair, triarticulate, the basal joints rather 

 stoutest, the second nearly as long again as the preceding, the terminal minute 

 ovate : maxillce short, a Uttle spiral. Antennw rather elongate, acute, sUghtly 

 bipectinated in the males, ciUated in the females: head small, pilose: thorax 

 stout, crested : abdomen moderately stout, the back with hairy fasciculi ; the 

 apex with a tuft : wings deflexed, elongate, densely squamous : legs moderate ; 

 femora and tibiae pilose ; the anterior with a large naked lobate appendage 

 anteriorly. Larva hairy, with two dorsal tufts, whiskers at the head, and a 

 fascicle of hair at the tail : pwjja smooth, with an acute termination poste- 

 riorly : changes in an ovate cocoon. 



Mf^Ms, nomcn vin. 



