402 CLASS VIII. 
Sp. ELuprepia caja, Phal. (Bombyx) caja L., Rasen, Ins, 1., Pap. noct, 
Cl. mm. Tab. 1.; Sepp, Nederl. Ins. 1. 4e Stuk, Tab. 11; wings outspread 
2}”—3” broad ; fore-wings brown marbled with white, hind-wings vermilion- 
red with blue-black round spots. Here belong many other species named 
by Linnaus Bombyces nobiles. Syst. nat. ed. XI. 1. p. 819. 
Psyche SCHRANK, LATR., OCHSENH. Tongue obsolete. Antenne 
in males pectinate. Ocelli two in many. Wings rarely scaly, sub- 
pellucid, in females none. Caterpillars inclosed in a tube or sac of 
conglutinated fragments of leaves and stalks. 
Sub-genus : Otketicus GUILDING. 
See Linn. Trans. Xv. 1827, pp. 371—377. The apterous female does 
not leave the follicle, and is there impregnated by the male. 
Limacodes Latr., Heterogenea Knocu, TreirscHKe. Palps 
very short. Tongue obsolete. Antenne setaceous. Ocelli none. 
Wings opaque; females winged as well as males. Caterpillars 
broad, resembling slugs, creeping, with six horny feet very short, 
membranous feet none, tubercles of the skin supplying their place. 
Sp. Limacodes Testudo, Hepialus Testudo Fasr., Sepp, Nederl. Ins. 1. 4e 
Stuk, Tab. Iv. on oaks ; Heterogenea asellana TREITSCHKE, Hepialus asellus 
Fasr., Knoou, Beitradge zur Insectengesch. 111. 1783, Tab. 11. 
Sericaria LAatR. (Liparis, Pygera, Endromis OCHSENH., Orgyia 
OcHSENH., Larr.). Tongue short or obsolete. Antenne in males 
or in both sexes pectinate. Ocelli none. Wings opaque, deflected, 
posterior guarded by a retinaculum. Larvee with sixteen feet. 
Sp. Sericaria dispar, Phal. (Bombyx) dispar L., RasEt, Ins. 1., Pap. noct. 
Cl. u. Tab. m1. ; Ratzesure, Forst-Ins. 11. Tab. v. fig. 1. This species is 
very common, and sometimes very injurious to trees. The brown cater- 
pillar with long bundles of hair has on each side of the body a row of 
eleven round spots, of which the first five are bluish-white, the following 
red. The female moths are a dirty white, with black bands on the upper 
wings, and very sluggish; the male, much smaller, has brown wings. 
In some species the females have merely short rudimentary wings (Orgyia 
OcHSENH.), Sericaria antiqua, Phal. (Bomb.) antiqua L., Rasen, Ins. t. 
Pap. nocturn. Cl. 1. Tab. Xxx1x. Tom. 111. Tab. xm. &e. 
Notodonta OCHSENH., LATR. 
Sp. Notodonta ziczac, Phal. (Bomb.) ziczac L., Rasen, Ins. t., Pap. nocturn. 
Cl. 1. Tab. xx.; Sepp, Nederl. Ins. 1. 4e Stuk, Tab. xr. &e. 
Cerura SCHRANK, Latr., Harpyia OCHSENH. Tongue very 
short or obsolete. Antenne in males or in both sexes bipectinate, 
