Ocbsenheimer's Genera of the Lepidoptera of Europe. 293 



Fam. E. Antennce pectinate, pectinations short : 'wings white 

 or yellow, with black spots : legs,, femora of the anterior 

 yellow : colour of the back and abdomen simple^ or the 

 latter yellow with five rows of black spots ; back hairy. 



Species. Icon. 



28. E. Mendica, lAxmJ^ Ernst, IV.Pl.CLIX.f.205.a— h. 



29. — Rustica, Hiibn.? — — — 



30. — Menthastri, Fab.f Ernst, IV. PI. CLVII. f. 204. 



a— c.Pl.CLVIII.f.204.d— k. 



31. — Urtica:, Esp.f.... Ernst, IV. PI. CLVIII. f. 204. 



m — n. 



32. — Lubricipeda, Linn.f Ernst, IV. PL CLVII. f. 203. 



* Diaphora", Steph. 

 " Palpi moderate, descending, triarticulate, the two basal joints very haiiy, 

 the terminal sqimmoiis, all of nearly equal length, cylindric, the basal 

 one incurved, the terminal more slender than the others, obtuse : 

 maxilla; rather longer than the head. Antenna; bipectinated in the 

 males, serrated in the females, the pectinations incurved, and meeting 

 at the apex : head very small, woolly : tlwrax stout, very woolly : 

 abdomen slender in the male, robust and slightly acute in the female : 

 tvings subdiaphanous, deflexed, trigonate ; legs short, stout ; the an- 

 terior tibia; short, with a spine on the inside, the jwsterior with spurs 

 at the apex. Larva tuberculated, each tubercle producing a tuft of 

 hairs : pupa acute, foUiculated." — Steph. Illiist. Brit. Ent. Haust. II. 



p. 77. 

 t Spilosoma'', Steph. 

 " Palpi short, a little descending, triarticidate, the two basal joints very 

 hairy, the terminal scaly, the basal joint somewhat longer than the 

 second, the apical rather small, oval, subconic : ma.villce short. Jn- 

 tcmue slightly bipectinated in the males, serrated in the females, each 

 articulation with a bristle at the apex : head rather small, hairy : thorax 

 and abdomen stopt in both sexes, the latter slightly tufted in the male, 

 acute in the female; tvings trigonate, deflexed, opaque: legs mo- 

 derately stout : anterior tibiae short, with a spine internally : the four 

 posterior with spurs at the apex. Larva slightly tuberculated, each 

 tubercle producing a whisker of hairs : 2>«pa obtuse, foUiculated." — 

 Steph. Illust. Brit. ^Ent. Haust. II. p. 74. 

 The predominant colour of this group is white, the wings deeply speckled 

 with black, and the body spotted with the same colour, in longitudinal 

 lines. Curtis adopts this genus from Ste[)hens's MSS., and quotes as 

 belonging to it the following British species : 



1. Spilosoma hibricii)eda, Linn. — Don. Vol. xvi. pi. 5G8. 



2. Walkcrii. Curtis. Vol. ii. pi. 1)2. 



.'{. Menthastri, Vabr.—Lmn. Truns. 1. 1).70. (Erniinca. Marsh.) 



4. Urtica-, Iliibn. 



F). papyritia. Marsh. — i/inn. Trans. I. p. 70. 



(J. radiata, JIaw. MSS. 



* Aiatpo^et, different in. 



'' 2t/'ao; mnrnta, nay.v. t nrpux. 



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