7. 

 ODENESIS PINI. Pine Lappet. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Bombycida' hat. 

 Type of the Genus Bombyx potatoria L. 



Odenesis Germar. Gastropacha Ochs., Germ., Leach. Bombyx Lin., 

 Fab., Lat., Haw. 



Antenncc nearly straight, setaceous, strongly bipectinated in the 

 male (1, a.) ; slightly bipectinated in the female (2.) 

 MaxUlce none ? Mandibles none ? 



Palpi 2, not very long, porrected, 3-jointed, hairy like a brush 

 in the female (3.) : more compact and acute in the male. Middle 

 joint twice the length of either of the others (4) : with hair removed 

 to show the joints. 

 Thorax not crested. Abdomen of male divided at the apex, and bent 

 upwards when viewed sideways. Wings entire, superior ones when at 

 rest deflexed, and the inferior projecting beyond them. 

 Larva tvith 16 feet: its hinder ones formed for walking, Jiat and 

 smooth beneath, rounded above, somewhat hairy ivith a slight tuber- 

 culated whart upon the penultimate joint, and fasciculi of hairs dis- 

 posed along the sides. Ochs. 

 Pupa with its segments simple, inclosed in an oblong soft cocoon. 



O. PiM Linn. Faun. Suec. 1 104. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 80. 4. Roes. 

 Ins. vol. i. />. 59. 



Head, tiiorax and abdomen (of the male) pale fuscous. Upper 

 wings cinereous, chesnut-brovvn at the base extending one fourtli 

 of the wing, surrounding a white lunular spot : an ochraceou.s 

 fascia strongly marked in its outline running across parallel with 

 the ciliated margin, very much sinuated behind, crcnatcd before. 

 Under wings pale chesnut. Female one-third larger than the male, 

 similar in its markings, but throughout much paler. 

 In the Cabinet of the British Museum. 



The Lepidoptera is by far the most difficult of all the Orders 

 to divide into genera, in consequence of the parts of the mouth 

 bring exceedingly minute and closely covered with scales or 



