2IO LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



It expands from an inch and a half to an inch and three- 

 quarters. 



The head and thorax are clothed with bright canary-yellow 

 hair, and the wings are yellow, speckled with rusty brown, 

 with two nearly parallel, slightly curved, brown transverse lines. 

 Between these, near the costa, is a rusty-coloured comma-shaped 

 mark. The fringes are dark rust-colour, varied with yellowish. 

 The hind-wings have a brown lunule, and the second line is 

 sometimes continued on them. 



The Canary-Shouldered Thorn. 



The larva feeds on birch, lime, elder, oak, and fruit trees. 

 It is slender, dark brown, shaded alternately with lighter and 

 darker, and moderately marbled with whitish. On the seventh 

 segment are four transverse tubercles, and the sixth and ninth 

 have transverse dorsal ridges. The last segment ends in three 

 points directed backwards, the middle one being the smallest. 



The pupa is light brown, with whitish incisions. 



FAMILY CENOCHROMIID^.. 



This Family was established by Guen^e to include a few 

 genera of Exotic Moths, chiefly Australian, of rather large size. 

 The antennae are thick, and the flagellum pectinated in the 

 males, except at the tip. The palpi and proboscis are thick, 

 the body is stout, the thorax is woolly, and the abdomen 

 smooth. The legs are short and thick, with very short spurs 



