I04 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORV, 



with tlie htad, extremity, and pro-legs red, iind feeds on a tree 

 which is used in Surinam for posts, &:c. 



Under the name of Bonibyx e?yflinna, Fabricius briefly 

 described an insect in his "Species Insectorum " (ii., p. 169, 

 no. 9 (1781) ), under which he included both the foregoing 

 species, and also an insect figured by Madame Merian (" In- 

 sectes de Surinam," pi. 11). His description is indefinite, but 

 as he expressly mentions the larva, his name may be retained 

 for Madame Merian's insect, which is clearly distinct from 

 either of the foregoing, being much larger and paler. The 

 larva, w^hich feeds on the so-called "palisade tree," is also 

 very different. There are three broods in the year, and the 

 young larvae are whitish or yellowish, with the segments bor- 

 dered with black, then yellow, with black spiracular spots, and 

 finally deep orange-brown, with black si)iracular spots, but 

 without the long black filaments which, in common with the 

 larvre of the other species of the genus, they possess in their 

 earlier stages, 



GENUS Sv\TURNIA 



Safurnta, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii. (i), \). 149 (1802); Och- 

 senheimer, Schmett. Eur., iii., p. i (1810); Stephens, III. 

 Brit. Ent. Haust., ii., p. 36 (182S); Walker, List Lepid. 

 Ins. Brit. Mus., vi., p. 1268 (1855). 



Sahiniia, as now restricted, includes a number of species of 

 moderate size, chiefly inhabiting Europe, Asia, and North 

 Africa. They are stout-bodied downy moths, with round, 

 opaque ocelli on the wings, sometimes traversed by a fine 

 vitreous line. The wings are broad, rounded off at the tips 

 of the fore-wings, and with the hind margin regularly curved, 

 and not very obliciue. In some species the sexes differ con- 

 siderably, and in others they are alike. The antennae are 

 deeply bipeclinated in the male, with branches of equal length; 



