42 Mr. Children's Abstract of the Characters of 



Wings broad, sublriangular, entire, somewhat diaphanous, 

 pilose, without a dorsal prominence : cilia extremely 

 short. 



Antenna: filiform, closely bipcctinated in both sexes, the bi- 

 pectinations shortest in the female, and in both sexes 

 incurved and terminating rather abruptly at the apex. 



Palpi very short, hairy, compressed, recurved, obtuse. 



Maxillce obsolete. 



Head, thorax and abdomoi thickly clothed with very fine long 

 hairs, which also envelope the base of the wings. 



Larva naked, attenuated in front with a pyramidal elevation 

 at the anal segment, and oblique lateral stripes. 



Pupa foUiculated, not subterranean *. 



Species, Icon. 



1. En. Versicolora,Unw. Ernst, IV.Pl. CXXV.f.l69.a—g. 



PI. CXXVI. f. 169.h-l. 



Genus 32. HARPYIA, Ochs. 



Cerura, Schr, Steph. Andri^, Hlibn. 



Legs woolly ; anterior tibia: with an elongate, compressed 



lobe ; posterior simple. 

 Wings entire, somewhat diaphanous, deflexed, anterior elon- 



Antenna: bipectinate in both sexes, in some species with the 

 apex simple; the pectinations longest in the males, and 

 ciliated. 



Palpi four ; labial small, tri-articulate, compressed, apex ob- 

 tuse ; maxillary minute, attenuated at the tip. 



Maxilla: very short, flat, not spiral. 



Head moderate. 



Thorax rather stout, not crested. 



Abdome7i moderate, robust in the females, with the apex ob- 

 tuse, slightly tufted in the males ; beneath woolly. 



Larva robust, anteriorly truncate, with an elevation on the 

 third segment ; the anal feet produced into two long re- 

 tractile filaments, with two short spines between. 



Pupa inclosed in a hard case, generally formed of agglutinated 

 pieces of woody fibre f . 



A. Ante7ince bipectinate throughout. 



Species. Icon. 



1. H. Viymla, Linn Ernst, V. PI. CCIV. f. 271. a— i. 



* Characters from Stephens, who places this genus in his second fainily 



of Lepidoptera nocturna, notodontidcE. — Illtist. Brit. Ent., Haustell. II. p. 33. 



t Characters chiefly from Stephens. — Jllust. Brit. Ent., Haustell. II. p. 15. 



2. H. Ermi- 



