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colour, with a black-edged spot on the back of the second 

 segment, and a dark brown dorsal line, often more or less 

 broken. The whole of the body is covered with fine hairs, 

 and there are long tufts on the back of the fifth and sixth seg- 

 ments, on each side of the head, and on the last segment. 



It feeds on hazel, lime, beech, and oak, but is not one of our 

 commonest species, though it is not exactly rare. 



GENUS NOTOLOPHUS. 



Orgyia (pt.), Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iii. p. 208 (1810); 



Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 60 (1828) ; Walker, 



List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 780 (1855). 

 NotolophuS) Germar, Syst. Gloss. Prodr. p. 35 (1812). 

 Gynaphora (partim), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 161 



(1822?). 

 Micropterogyna, Rambur, Cat. Ldpid. de TAndalusie, p. 281, 



note (1866). 



This genus differs from the majority of the Family by the 

 rudimentary wings of the stout-bodied females. The males 

 are brown or orange, with short, pectinated antennae, and 

 broad wings, the fore-wings being almost triangular. They fly 

 about in the daytime, and the larvae feed on trees. They are 

 numerous in South Europe \ in Britain we have only two very 

 similar and rather dull-coloured species. 



THE VAPOURER MOTH. NOTOLOPHUS ANTIQUUS. 



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



37 ( r 75 8 ) '> id. Faun. Suec. p. 297 (1761) ; Esper, Schmett. 



iii. p. 278, Taf. 56, figs. 1-5 (1786); Godart, Le'pid. 



France, iv. p. 253, pi. 24, figs, i, 2 (1822). 

 Orgyia antiqua, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iii. p. 221 



(1810); Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 61 (18*8); 



