ii8 Lloyd's natural history. 



The pupa is dark brown, with reddish-brown incisions, and 

 is placed in a dense, elongated cocoon of a yellowish-grey 

 colour, mixed with darker hairs. The perfect insect emerges 

 after three or four weeks. 



Although this moth is abundant on the Continent, it is very 

 doubtful whether the few specimens obtained in England were 

 really indigenous. 



GENUS GASTROPACIIA. 



Gastropacha, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur., iii. p. 239 (18 10); 

 Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii., p. 52 (1S28); Walker, 

 List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus., vi., p. 1388 (1855). 

 Eiitricha, Hiibner, Tentamen, p. i (t8io?). 



This is a genus of stout-bodied moths, with strongly pecti- 

 nated antennce, and the abdomen extending a little beyond the 

 hind-wings. The palpi are stout, pilose, and beak-like. The 

 wings are strongly dentated, and the hind-wings are so broad 

 that they project considerably in front, from beneath the fore- 

 wings, when the latter are folded over them while the insect is 

 resting. 



THE LAPPET MOTH. GASTROPACHA QUERCIFOLIA. 

 {Pla/e CXXHL, Fig. 3 ; larva, Fig. 4.) 



Bonibyx quercifolia, Linnceus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.), i., p. 497, 

 no. 8 (1758); id.. Faun. Succ, p. 293 (1761); Esper, 

 Schmett., iii., p. 56, Taf. vi., figs. 3-7 ; Taf. 6 A, figs, i, 2 

 (1782); Hiibner, Eur. Schmett., iii., figs. 187, 188(1804?); 

 Godart, Lepid, France, iv., p. 76, pi. 7, figs, i, 2 (1822). 



Gdsiropacha quercifolia^ Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur., iii., 

 p. 247 (1810) ; Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust., iii., p. 52 

 (1828) ; Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 128, pi. 28, 

 figs. I a-c (1880); Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid., iii., 

 pi. 51, figs. I, I a, b (1889); Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl. iii. 

 p. 42, pi. 95 (1895). 



