190 Mr. Children's Abstract of the Characters of 



vailing character ; viz. the remarkable thickness of the 

 abdomen of the female moth, deriving the term from the 

 two Greek words yao-ryjp veiiter, and "KOLy^xii crassus. That 

 other authors have not thought with Ochsenheimer, as to 

 the propriety of creating new genera and new names, is 

 pretty evident, from the list of synonyms immediately 

 preceding these observations ; and in the present instance 

 they seem to be right. 

 Fam. a. — A7itc7in(e bipectinate; palpi porrected; mngs 

 dentated ; anterior deflexed ; 2)ostcrior projecting beyond 

 the anterior when at rest ; haiistellum, none : larva flat 

 beneath, convex above, semirugose; second and third 

 segments with one or two transverse bands, and a conical 

 tubercle on the penultimate, and similar shaped, tufted 

 tubei'cles on the sides : inctamoiphosis above ground, in 

 a rather loner web covered on the inside with a whitish 

 powder. 



Species. Icon. 



1. G. Ilicifolia, Unn* Ernst, IV.Pl.CLXVIII.f.219. a. b. 



2. — Betjilifolia, Ochs. Ernst,lV.Pl.CLXVIII.f.220.a— k. 



3. _ Popnlifolia, Fab. Ernst, IV. PI. CLXVII. f. 218. 



a — g. 



4. — Quercifolia,Um*'E.rnsl, IV. PI. CLXVI. f. 217. 



a— g. 

 Curtis, I. PI. 24?. Imago et larva. 



5. G. Alni- 



5. Genus Callimorpha, Latreille. This genus and Lithosia, Latr. form 

 each a part of Ochsenheimer's genera Lithosia, and Eyprepia. Mr. 

 Stephens places Callimorpha at the head of his first family of the 

 nocturnal Lepidoptera, the Lithosiidae ^, and arranges under it the 

 two British species Jacohcece and Miniata: (Lithosia, Jacohcece, and 

 Rosea, Ochs.) 

 " Callimorpha, Latr. 



" Palpi short, a little descending or horizontally porrected, slightly hairy, 

 inarticulate, the basal joint elongate-ovate, as long as the two follow- 

 ing, which are of equal length, and subovate or attenuated, with the 

 terminal one acute : maxilla longer than the head. Antennce setaceous, 

 slightly ciliated in the males : head small, rather hairy in front : thorax 

 and abdomen clothed with silken scales ; the latter somewhat robust 

 in the female, slightly tufted in the male: whigs rather broad, anterior 

 elongate-trigonate, with the hinder margin rounded or subelliptic : 

 legs moderate; tibice short, the posterior with two pair of spurs. Larvce 

 sparingly covered with hairs, or densely pilose, the head nearly naked : 

 ])upa obtuse or acute." — Steph. Illust. Brit. Ent. Haust. IL 89. 

 * Gastropaciia, Steph. 



" Palpi elongate, porrected, hairy, triarticulate, the second joint longest; 



the 



* Consisting of the genera Callimorpha, Etdepia, Deiopeia, Lithosia, 

 (innphia, and Selina, as stated in the tabular view of the family, p. 89. 



