Ochsenlieimer's Genera of the Lepidoptera of Europe. 123 



Species. Icon. 



8. L. Chrysorrhoea, \ Ernst, IV. PI. CXXXV. f. 182. 



Lino.* J a — f. 



9. — Aiirifiia, Fab.*... Ernst, IV. PI. CXXXVI. f. 183. 



a — f. 



joint longest, the terminal shortest, obtuse : maxillcB very short. An- 

 tenncB acute, of equal length in both sexes, deeply bipectinated in the 

 males, the 'pectinations gradually shortened towards the apex, ciliated 

 and furnished with one or two fine setse at the tip, shortest in the fe- 

 males : head small, hairy, with a distinct fascicle of scales at the base 

 of each antenna : Morar short, woolly ; ahdomcn XxS.X.&A in the males, 

 very robust and acute in the females : ivings deflexed, rather broad, 

 trigonate, with remote scales : legs robust ; femora and tibia: slightly 

 fringed with hair. Larva with fascicles of hair on each side, and 

 sometimes with loose dorsal tufts: j^iqia slightly hairy, enclosed in a 

 loose orbiculate cocoon: egjgi enveloped in a friable silken matter." — 

 Steph. I. c. p. 63. 

 * PoRTHEsiA, Steph. 

 " Paljn very short, descending, slightly hairy, cylindric, triarticulate, the 

 terminal joint exposed ; the basal minute, about half as long as the 

 terminal, the intermediate longest : maxillcB very short : antenncB short, 

 especially in the females, acute, bipectinated in both sexes to the apex, 

 the pectinations shortest in the females: head small, very pilose: 

 thorax and abdomen somewhat robust and woolly : luings deflexed, sub- 

 trigonate, thickly clothed with scales : legs robust, short ; femora, tibice, 

 and anterior tarsi densely fringed with elongate hairs. Larva with close 

 fascicles of haii- down the sides, rather longest on the neck ; the back 

 without tufts : pupa slightly hairy, acute, enclosed in a slight follicu- 

 lus : eggs enveloped in Aown." — Steph. Illust. Brit. Ent. 11. 65. 

 Schrank's genus Arctia is quoted by Ochsenheimer as forn)ing part of his 

 genus Eyprepia. Curtis has adopted the genus Arctia, as Stephens has 

 also done more lately; the former inserting under it the British species, 

 1. cnennsa, Hiibn. ; 2. V. nigra, Fab.; 3. Salicis, Linn.; 4. chrj/sorrhosa, Linn.; 

 and 5. phceorrhcea. Haw. The first and last species 1 cannot find noticed at 

 all by Ochsenheimer; the second, third, and fourth, form part of his genus 

 Liparis (q. v. ut sup.). Stephens has adopted Hlibner's genus Leucoma to 

 receive V. nigra and Salicis ; and has created a new one, Vorthesia, for chry- 

 sorrhcea and another ; and his genus Arctia consists of Caja, matronula, 

 villiea, Hebe, purpurea, and aidica, all of them EyprcpicB of Ochsenheimer. 

 He has, moreover, created another new genus, Lcelia, to receive Hiibner's 

 Bombi/x ccenosa, and which he characterizes as follows : 



" L^LIA, Steph. 

 "Palpi elongate, projecting, very hairy beneath, the last joint exposed; 

 triarticulate, the basal and terminal joints very minute, the second 

 considerably elongated : maxilla; distinct. Antennce moderate, shortest 

 in the females, deeply bipectinated in the males the pectinations ter- 

 minating abruptly at the tip, and very short in the female, each pecti- 

 nation ciliated, and furnished at its apex with three or four divergent 

 bristles: /rtv/t/ small, pilose; //ior«j- not crested, pilose: wings dc^c^Qd, 

 rather narrow, trigonate, sparingly clothed with scales : abdomen rather 

 elongated, and stout, slightly tultcd : legs moderate ; the femora and 

 tibia: fringed with elongate hairs. Larva hairy, with four compact 

 dorsal tufts, and one at the tail, and two elongate fascicles at tiic neck : 

 pupa slightly pilose, acute at the tip, enclosed in an elongate, compact, 

 yellow folliculus." 



1. Lac. Canosa, Hubn Curtis, Brit. Ent. H. PI. 68. (J, ? and Larva. 



R 2 Genus 40. 



