196 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



long hairs, brownish in the male, rust-coloured in the female. 

 These the female uses as a covering for her eggs, which are 

 laid in a cluster. 



The larvae hibernate in companies in a common grey web, 

 but disperse after the first moults. The full-grown larva is 

 greyish black, with light brown hairs and two reddish-brown 

 lines on the back. On the fifth and terminal segments is a 

 black wart-like elevation, and on both sides of the back is a 

 white stripe. It feeds on various kinds of fruit trees as well 

 as on oak, blackthorn, &c. 



GENUS OCNERIA. 



Ocnerla, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 158 (1822?); Walker, 

 List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. iv. p. 789 (1855). 



This is a South European genus, the type of which is easily 

 distinguished from any of the British Liparida by its pale reddish 

 colours. The antennae are strongly pectinated in the male, in 

 which, too, the body is much less stout than in the female ; 

 the legs are very slender, and not tufted, as in most of the 

 other Liparida, and the wings are rather narrow, more of the 

 shape that we observe in some of the smaller Lasiocampida. 



OCNERIA RUBEA. 



(Plate XCI. Fig. I.) 



Bombyx rubea, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 117, no. 107 (1787); 



Hiibner, Beitr. Schmett. ii. (2) p. 50, Taf. 32 (1790); id. 



Eur. Schmett. ii. figs. 60, 61, 240 (1800?); Esper, 



Schmett. iii. (2) p. 53, Taf. 89, fig. 3 (1807). 

 Liparis rubea, Ochsenheimcr, Schmett Eur. iii. p. 190 



(1810). 

 Ocneria rubea, Herrich-Schaffer, Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 136, fig. 



89 (1844); Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. no 



(1879). 



