ZEUZERA. I4T 



GENUS ZEUZERA. 



Zeu-cra, Latreille, Noiiv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat, xxiv., p. 1S6 

 (1804); Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii., p. 8 (1828); 

 Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. viii., p. 1528 (1856) ; 

 Moore, Lepid. Ceylon, ii., p. 153 (1883). 



Zcnzera, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins. xiv., p. 175 (1805). 



In this genus, the antennce of the male are strongly pecti- 

 nated to the middle, and are then simple to the tip ; in the 

 female they are simple. The wings are long and narrow, and 

 the abdomen is rather stout, pubescent, much longer than the 

 hind-wings, and provided with an ovipositor in the female. 



THE WOOD LEOPARD MOTH. ZEUZERA PYRINA. 



{Plafe CXXV., Fig. i; larva, Fig 2.) 



Nocttia pyrina, Linnasus, Faun. Suec, p. 306 (1761). 

 Fhalcena hippocastajii, Vo(^Vi, Mus. Gr^c, p. ^^, no. 16 (1761). 

 Nocttm cESCuIi, Linn?eus, Syst. Nat. (ed. xii.), i. (2), p. 833, 



no. 83 (1767)- 

 Bomhyx ccsculi, Esper, Schmett. iii., p. 3 it, Taf. 62 (1786); 



Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. iii., fig. 202 (1804). 

 Cossiis ccscuVi, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iii., p. 99 (18 10); 



Godart, Lepid. France, iv., p. 54, pi. 3, figs. 2, 3 (1822). 

 Zeuzcra cesculi, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii., p. 8 (1828); 



Kirby, Eur. Buttcrlhes and Moths, p. 113, pi. 26, figs. 



2 a, b (1880) ; Buckler, Larvre of Brit. Lepid. ii., p. 132, 



pi. 31, fig. I (1887); Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl. ii., p. 143, 



pi. 61, figs. 2, 2 a-c (1894). 



The Wood Leopard Moth is found throughout Europe and 

 North Africa. The male expands about two inches, and the 

 female two inches and a half, or more. 



