62 HAUSTELLATA. — LF.PIDOPTERA. 



Wings fuscous ; anterior prettily varied with pale griseous, with a pale annular 

 mark at the base, and another on the disc, the hinder margin with a dusky or 

 pale streak, with a bright fulvous patch at the apex, near the costa, margined 

 externally with white, and a semilunar white spot at the anal angle: cilia 

 dusky, interrupted by pale griseous : posterior wings deep dusky-brown ; the 

 cilia irregularly whitish at the edges. Female deep fuscous. 



Caterpillar black, spotted with red, with four pair of yellowish or luteous dorsal 

 tufts, two composed of capitate hairs on the neck, one on each side of the 

 body, and one at the tail, elongate and dusky : it feeds on various plants, and, 

 like its congener, ^is to be found, for a considerable period, during the sum- 

 mer : it changes to a dusky or black pupa, posteriorly yellow : the imago is 

 first observed in June, and continues till the end of August, but is scarce. 



The Orgyise " assemble" vigorously, and I once had the pleasure 

 of capturing some dozens of this rare insect at Coombe-wood, by- 

 means of a female that I fortunately reared from the larva. It occurs 

 in several places near the metropolis, as at Lewisham, Erith, Green^ 

 hitlie, &e. « Bagley-wood, Oxon:'—Kev. W. T, Bree. 



Genus LXIV. — L^elia mihi. 



Palpi elongate, projecting, very hairy beneath, the last joint exposed ; triarti- 

 culate, the basal and terminal joints very minute, the second considerably 

 elongated: maxiUce distinct. Antenna: moderate, shortest in the females, 

 ileeply bipectinated in the males, the pectinations terminating abruptly at the 

 tip, and very short in the female, each pectination ciliated, and furnished at 

 its apex with three or four divergent bristles : head small, pilose : thorax not 

 crested, pilose : wings deflexed, rather narrow, trigonate, sparingly clothed 

 with scales : abdomen rather elongated and stout, slightly tufted : legs mo- 

 derate : the femora and tibice fringed with elongate hairs. Larva hairy, with 

 four compact dorsal tufts, and one at the tail, and two elongate fascicles at the 

 neck : pupa slightly pilose, acute at the tip ; enclosed in an elongate compact 

 yellow folliculus. 



This and the two following genera form a portion of the extensive 

 genus Laria of Schrank; the Arctise of that author embracing Bombyx 

 caja of Linne and its congeners : that the miscalled genus Arctia 

 requires subdivision is very evident. Lselia has the antennse of the 

 females shorter than those of the males, and nearly simple, those of 

 the latter sex abruptly terminated, and their pectinations tipped 

 with several divergent bristles ; the females are generally smaller 

 than the males, the body rather elongated, the palpi lengthened, 

 projecting, very hairy beneath, with the basal joint very minute, 

 and the second considerably elongated ; the form and texture of the 



