218 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



infra, p. 222), but the body is much stouter, the fore-wings 

 are longer and narrower, with the hind margin obliquely 

 curved, and the hind-wings are very short and rounded. The 

 larva is a very extraordinary creature ; very broad, with three 

 long processes, curving backwards, on each side. 



PHOBETRUM PITHECIUM. 



(Plate XCIII. Fig. I (imago), 2 (larva).) 



Phalczna pithecium, Abbot & Smith, Lepid. Georg. ii. pi. 74 



(i797). 

 Phobetron abbotana, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 398, no 



3853 (1827 ?). 

 Ecnomidea pithedum, Westwood, in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Exot. 



Moths, p. 183, pi. 21, fig. 4 (1841). 

 Phobetrum pithedum, Lintner, Rep. Inj. Ins. v. pp. 183-192 



(1889). 



This pretty little Moth is a native of Georgia. The female 

 expands i^ inch, and the male rather less. 



The fore-wings are bluish, with waved yellowish-brown 

 transverse bands, more or less clouded with dusky. The 

 hind-wings are uniform brown, with a narrow yellow line 

 within the fringes. The female has the body rather thick, the 

 thorax bluish with brown sides, and the abdomen bluish with 

 brown rings. The male has the body light brown clouded 

 with darker, and a tuft at the end of the abdomen. 



The larva is uniform brown with a yellow head, and it is 

 its peculiar and uncouth aspect which has suggested the name 

 Pithedum (little ape) for the insect. It feeds on persimmon and 

 various kinds of oak. Abbot's specimen spun up on the loth 

 of July, and the Moth emerged on the 3ist. The cocoon is 

 almost globular. 



