202 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



bearing blue and red hairs, and on the third segment is a 

 velvety-black spot, concave in front, and edged with bluish 

 behind, and white on the sides. The three terminal segments 

 are spotted with black, and the sides are of a lighter colour. 

 The head is large, light brown, with two projecting black tufts 

 of hair. It feeds on fir, oak, apple, &c., and is often very 

 destructive on the Continent, though it is far from generally 

 abundant in England. In Germany, where it is one of the 

 worst pests in the pine-forests, the Moth is often called the 

 Nun, the translation of the Latin name of the insect. 



GENUS DASYCHIRA. 



Dasychira, Hiibner, Tentamen, p. i (iSio?); Stephens, 111. 

 Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 58 (1828); Walker, List Lepid. 

 Ins. Brit. Mus. iv. p. 861 (1855). 



In this genus, the type of which is one of our largest Liparidce, 

 the body is stout, and the antennae strongly pectinated in the 

 male, and the wings long, the hind-wings being oval, with the 

 lower part of the hind margin waved. The wings are grey, or 

 whitish; with darker markings, and the sexes are less dissimilar 

 than in many species of this Family. 



THE PALE TUSSOCK. DASYCHIRA PUDIBUNDA. 



Bombyx pudibunda, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 503, no. 



35 (!75 8 ); id. Faun. Suec. p. 396 (1761); Esper, Schmett. 



iii. p. 271, Taf. 54 (1785); Godart, Lepid. France, iv. p. 



239, pi. 22, figs. 2,3 (1822). 

 Geometra scopularia, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 521, 



no. 144 (i75 8 ); Clerck, Icones, pi. 5, fig. 8 (1759). 

 Bombyx juglandis, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. iii. figs. 84, 85 



(1800?). 

 Orgyia pudibunda, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iii. p. 209 



(1810). 





