BOMBYCIDM. aj 



Northern Africa. At Tangier Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N., found 

 the larva feeding commonly on the single-seeded white 

 broom. 



2. L. quercus, L. — Expanse of the male 2\ to 2 J inches, 

 of fem^ale 2| to 3] inches. Male rich chestnut ; female 

 yellow-brown ; all the wings with a broad yellower band 

 beyond the middle ; fore wings with a white central spot. 



Antenna of male variable in length, stout, prominent, 

 pointing forward and curved outward ; very strongly pecti- 

 nated with long stout teeth set closely together, and curled 

 in at their tips ; shaft yellow-brown ; pectinations red-brown. 

 Head, thorax, which is broad and powerful, and abdomen, 

 which is stout but tapering, all densely covered with long 

 fluffy red-brown scales ; anal tuft similar, not very thick ; 

 fore wings broad and ample, very stout and strong ; costal 

 margin straight to beyond the middle, thence gently rounded ; 

 apex slightly rounded off, but rather square; hind margin 

 nearly straight or slightly sinuous to near the anal angle, 

 where it is boldly rounded off, the curve extending to the 

 dorsal margin ; rich red-brown or reddish-chocolate ; first 

 line absent ; normal second line rather beyond the middle, 

 gracefully sinuous and varying in position and form, but 

 sharply defined and edged outwardly by a broad yellowish- 

 fulvous stripe, shading off into the red-brown ground colour 

 toward the hind margin ; but this portion of the chestnut 

 colouring is paler than that before the band, especially so 

 between the nervures ; at the extremity of the discal cell is a 

 conspicuous black-edged pure white spot, and sometimes a 

 yellow blotch or epaulet is visible rather near to the costa at 

 the base of the wings ; cilia dark red. Hind wings red- 

 brown to beyond the middle, where is a narrower transverse 

 yellow-fulvous stripe, its inner edge sharply defined and 

 meeting that on the fore wings ; outside this the yellow- 

 fulvous shades off to the ground colour; cilia yellowish] 



