194; Mr. Children's Abstract of the Characters of 



ractevs for either, which, he says, are better obtained by de- 

 scription of the separate species respectively, than they can be 

 collectively, from the groups. 



Species. Icon. 



16. G. PopuU, Linn.*.... Ernst, V. PLCLXXXIII. f. 236. 



a— g. 



17. _ Craticgi, Linn.f .. Ernst, V. PI. CLXXXII. f.235. 



a — e. 



18. — P;ocess/o«ra, Linn.f + Ernsl, V. PLCLXXXIV. f. 238. 



a— f. 



19. _ Pltyocampa, Fab.J Ernst, V. PI. CLXXXIV. f. 239. 



a— f. 



20. — Catax, Linn Ernst, V. PI. CLXXVIIL f. 229. 



a — e. 



* PcECILOCAMPA, Staph." 

 " Palpi extremely minute, 8ubglobose, enveloped in slender elongate hairs ; 

 inaxill<e obsolete. Anterince densely bipectinated in the males, the 

 pectinations scarcely decreasinjj towards the apex ; strongly serrated 

 in the females : ticad very small, and hairy: Miw-w.r stout and hairy : 

 abdomen abbreviated, tufted in the male, and pilose laterally in both 

 sexes, the female without a downy mass at the apex : wings entire, 

 elongate, acute, subdiaphanous, not reversed during repose: legs with 

 \.\\e femora and tibi<B pilose. Larva slightly hairy a little depressed, 

 maculated, not gregarious: jnqm short, obtuse, inclosed in a silken 

 folliculus, superficially subterranean." — Stejih. I/lust. Brit. Ent. Ilaust. 

 II. 43. 

 -f- Clisiocampa, Curtis. — See Gen. Char., Species 25. G.castrensis ; note. 



X Cnethocampa*, Steph. 



" Palpi very short, enveloped in longish hairs, triarticulate, the basal joint 

 longer, and stouter than the second, terminal minute, slender, rather 

 acute : viaxillcB obsolete. Antenncs short, slightly curved, bipectinated 

 in the males, serrated in the females, the pectinations gradually de- 

 creasing in length to the apex : head distinctly visible from above : 

 thorax stout, hairy : atnlomcn rather elongate, tufted, the apex of the 

 female with a woolly mass : tuings slightly reversed, obscurely diapha- 

 nous : cilia not abbreviated : legs slender : femora and lihice pilose. 

 Larva gregarious, cylindrical, hairy : pupa also gregarious, obtuse, 

 bidentate posteriorly, inclosed in a rigid cocoon." — Steph. Illust. 

 Brit. Ent. Haustcl. II. 46. 



From Poecilocampa and Eriogaster (a genus to be presently noticed); 

 Cnethocampa differs by the tenuity and shortness of the antennae and 

 their pectinations in the males, and by the downy tuft at the apex of 

 the abdomen, in the females ; and from the latter genus both sexes 

 differ by the elongation of the cilia, exclusively of differences in the 

 trophi, &C. " The habits of the larvae are also remarkably dissimilar 

 to those of the above genera ; and their hairs, when applied to any part 

 of the body, cause very great irritation and acute pain, especially those 

 of Cn. Pityocampa." — Steph. I. c. 



" Ylotx.i'Ko; varius ; KUf^Trn cruca. 



t" Yi'jr,9oi jjruritum movco, KXf^.'Trri crura. 



21. G. Evcria, 



