TACHYPASA. 



GENUS PACHYPASA. 



Pac/iypasa, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. vi., p. 1422 

 (1855)- 



Body very stout, extending considerably beyond the hind- 

 wings ; head prominent, palpi stout, pilose, longer than the head ; 

 antennae in the male very broadly pectinated, less so towards 

 the tip. Wings densely scaled, long, rather narrow, and 

 rounded. 



The type of this genus is a large moth, which is very unlike 

 any other European species. 



PACHYPASA OTUS. 



sphinx oUts^ Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. i., pi. 16, fig. 3 (1773). 

 Bombyx dryop/iaga, Geyer in Hiibner's Eur. Schmett., iii., figs. 



366,367 (1828?). 

 Lasiocanipa otiis, Boisduval, Icones, ii., p. 163, pi. 65, fig. i 



(1834) ; Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 129, pi. 53, 



fig. 2 (1880). 

 Gasiropacha dryophaga, Treitschkc, Schmett. Eur., x. (i.), p. 185 



(1834); Herrich-Schaffer, Schmett. Eur., ii., p. 104, no. 6, 



figs. 23, 24 (1844). 



This large moth is found in Southern Europe and Western 

 Asia. It expands about four inches and a half. 



The head and antennas are reddish-brown, the latter closely 

 and strongly pectinated at the base in the male, and tapering 

 to the tip. The \^ings are long and narrow, entire, and of a 

 brown colour. The fore-wings are traversed by two zig-zag 

 black transverse lines, and the surface is dusted with coarse 

 black atoms, but the area between the transverse lines remains 

 paler than the rest. The hind-wings are brown, with two 

 indistinct curved lines. 



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