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many from its large size, livid hue, and disagreeable 

 smell, several authors are of opinion that it is the 

 Cosws of Pliny, and consequently the worm regarded 

 by the Romans as a delicious article of food. It 

 may also be mentioned, that it is remarkable as 

 having been the subject of a most elaborate and ac- 

 curate anatomical examination by the celebrated 

 Lyonet, the results of which were published under 

 the title of Traite Anatomique de la Chenille du 

 Saide, a work that lias advanced our acquaintance 

 mth the internal structure of insects more than any 

 other that could be named. 



WOOD LEOPARD-MOTH. 



Zeuzera jEscidi. 

 PLATE XV. Fig. 1. 



Latreille, Stepliens* Illus. Phal. Noct. TEsculi, Linn. ; Dono- 



van, v. PI. 152 Cossus ^scuU, Fabr Wood Leopaxd- 



moth, Harris. 



THIS genus was first established by Latreille, who 

 gives as its distinguishing characters the setaceous 

 form of the antennae, which are not so long as the 

 thorax, and pectinated at the base in the males, 

 while in the female they are simple, with the base 

 tomentose. The palpi are obsolete, the abdomen 

 long and attenuated, and the tibiao without spurs or 

 spines. The beautiful species represented on the 



