BOMBYX PUDIBUNDA. 



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and with 2 to 3 narrow grey-brown transverse waved lines; 

 abdomen and hind-wings somewhat lighter, the latter with a 

 faint greyish band ; $ darker and more spotted than the ? . 

 Caterpillar, when mature, about 40 mm. long, with 16 legs, 

 at first greenish yellow, later becoming reddish or brownish, 

 hairy, with four truncated tufts of yellow or brownish-grey 

 bristles on the 4th to the 7th segments, separated by black 



a Male. 



Fig. 153. Bambyx pudibunda, L. 

 Female. c Caterpillar. d Pupa (dorsal surface). 



velvety bands, and with a rose-red pencil of hair on the last 

 segment. 



Pupa thick-set, dark brown, covered with short grey hair, 

 in a yellowish-grey cocoon spun up with the larval hairs. 



b. Life-history. 



The moth appears at the end of May or beginning of June. 

 In June the female lays about 100 to 150 bluish-grey eggs in 

 a cluster on the bark, generally low down, at about 1 yard 

 from the ground, but often a few yards up, sometimes on 

 twigs or dead wood on the ground, or even on grass or 

 herbage. 



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