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The whole body is covered with short black hairs. On the upper portion of each 

 segment are two pale wart-like spots, situated to the right and left of the dorsal vessel. 

 Behind these, and more widely separated from each other, are two smaller, but other- 

 wise similar., spots, whitish hairs springing from all four. Other wart-like spots less 

 distinctly paler than the surrounding skin are arranged on the sides of the segments in 

 the following order ; one above and one below, and a third behind and slightly below 

 each spiracle. There is also one above each of the abdominal claspers, which are dull 

 yellowish white, with black booklets, as are also the anal claspers. The prolegs are black, 

 with a whitish ring around the base of each. All the hairs have small, but sharp spines 

 around them, arranged somewhat in a spiral form from base to tip, the points directed 

 outwards. This formation, as in the case of those of many larva? of the Lasiocampidse 

 and Liparida?, notably in that of Cnethocampa pityocampa, "W.V., renders them very 

 irritating and difficult to eradicate if, by any means after detachment, they become 

 lodged, with the base downwards, in the human skin. 



This genus has been placed among the Liparidse. In the Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History (4), xix. p. 462, Mr. Butler assigns to it a position between Marana and 

 Numenes, and suggests that A. reticulata and A. panda are probably varieties of one species. 



The young larvae above described have so much the character of Arctiidae, with their 

 clothing of long brown erect hairs, as to suggest the idea that the genus should more 

 properly be included in this family. The most immature forms of larvae may usually 

 be relied upon to indicate their affinities and probable derivation. In this case it is a 

 fair inference from the evidence they afford that Arctia is an older form than Liparis, 

 and that the genus Anaphe occupies the position of a connecting link between the two 

 families. 



Herrich-Schaffer, in creating for this form the generic name Arctiomorpha, showed 

 that he had observed its peculiar resemblance to Arctia ; but he placed it in the family 

 Notodontidse. 



Boisduval, in describing this same species in the ' Voyage de Delegorgue en Afrique 

 Australe,' torn. ii. p. 600, 1847, mentions its resemblance to Arctia villica, which I 

 confess I am unable to recognize. The large anal tuft of easily detached hairs on the 

 body of the female is the point in which it most strongly resembles the typical forms of 

 the genus Liparis, as well as in its neuration, the median vein of the hind wings having 

 but three branches instead of four as in the Arctiida?. 



I am informed by Mr. Kirby that the dipterous parasites present in the cocoon from 

 Colonel Bowker appear to be closely allied to Tachina onchcstus, Walker (List Dip. B. 

 M. iv. p. 773, 1849). [Two of these emerged on the day the paper was read, and one was 

 shown alive at the Meeting of the Society, along with the series of specimens described 

 in this communication.] 



Fromholz, in the paper already referred to, describes under a new genus of Lepidoptera 

 belonging to the Phycida?, Zophodiopsis hyceiiella, as infesting nests of the species 

 mentioned by him and believed to be Anaphe panda. We have therefore the Lepido- 

 ptera, Hymenoptera, and Diptera, each represented as pax-asitically attached to the larva; 

 or to the habitations of laiwas of this interesting genus. 



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