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hind-wings; the antennae are moderately pectinated in the 

 male, and the wings are short and broad, with rounded hind 

 margins ; the legs are stout and pilose, the hind tibire being 

 armed with four short spurs. 



The larva is a curious boat-shaped creature, and is armed 

 above with a double row of long and very thick spikes. Dr 

 Packard detected in it a resemblance to the famous warship 

 " Monitor." 



EUCLEA QUERCETI. 



(Plate XCIII. Fig. 3 (imago}, 4 (larva}.} 



Phalana cippus. Abbot & Smith (nee Cramer), Lepid. Georg. 



ii. pi. 13 (1797). 

 Limacodes cippus, Duncan, in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Exot. Moths, 



p. 177, pi. 21, fig. 2 (1841). 

 Limacodes querceti, Herri ch-Schaffer, Aussereurop, Schmett. i. 



fig. 174 (1854). 

 Euclea cippus, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. v. p. 1143, 



no. i (1855). 

 Euclea monitor, Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. iii. p. 337 



(1864); id. Guide Ins. pp. 288, 289 (1869). 

 This elegant little species is a native of the United States. 

 It expands about an inch. The fore-wings are brown with 

 something of a reddish tinge. They have a dark brown band 

 near the hind margin, a few dark marks nearer the base and 

 two rather large green spots, each of which is divided externally 

 by a white and black border from a red spot. 

 The hind-wings are light brown without spots. 

 The head and thorax are of the same colour as the ground- 

 colour of the fore-wings, and the abdomen is like the hind- 

 wings. 



The larva inclines to purple on the sides, with three longi- 

 tudinal yellow stripes margined below with black 



