72 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY 



warts replace, in the full-grown larva, two light-coloured 

 granulated spiny processes found in the earlier stages of the 

 larva, not unlike those exhibited by the larva of Aglia fan 

 on the first and third segments. The pupa is blackish and 

 cylindrical. 



The nearest allied species is B. christopJii (Staudinger), from 

 Lenkoran, on the Caspian Sea ; but the band of oval spots 

 on the fore-wings of the latter species is much broader and 

 paler, and more uniform both in width and colour. The other 

 Asiatic species of Brahnicsa, which are found in India, China, 

 Japan, &c., though all presenting a strong generic resemblance, 

 have patterns too dissimilar from B. ledereri for any of them 

 to be mistaken for it. 



FAMILY XXX. DREPANULID/E. 



Egg.— Oval, pale, turning red as it matures. 



Larva.— Naked, humped on the back, with only fourteen legs, 

 the anal claspers being obsolete ; the terminal segment is 

 usually more or less pointed, and sometimes ends in a long 

 projection. 



Pupa —Slender, enclosed in a cocoon among leaves and 

 moss. 



Imago.— Of small or moderate size. Palpi and proboscis 

 generally short or obsolete ; antennas pectinated in male ; 

 body rather short and slender ; wings with a frenulum, short 

 and broad, often hooked, and with one or two sub-median 

 nervures. 



The short slender bodies and broad wings of these moths 

 give them some resemblance to GeonieifcE^ with which they 

 were classed by many of the older authors. J^Iost of the 



