724 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORV. 



The middle of the back is dark and the pointed projection 

 brownish-red. It feeds on the dog-weed (Cornus florida\ oak, 

 and other trees. It was observed by Abbot to make its cocoon 

 on the i4th of September, and the Moth appeared on the 

 22nd of July. 



GENUS APOD A. 



Apoda, Ha worth, Lepid. Brit. ii. p. 137 (1809). 



Cochlidion, Hiibner, Tentamen, p. 2 (1810?). 



Limacodes, Latreille, Fam. Nat. p. 474 (1825); Stephens, 111. 



Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 85 (1829) ; Walker, List Lepid. 



Ins. Brit. Mus. v. p. 1145 (1855). 



In this genus the antennae are stout and serrated in the 

 male, and simple in the female. The palpi are densely clothed 

 with scales and short hairs, and extend a little beyond the 

 head, and the legs and abdomen are rather stout. The femora 

 and tibiae are fringed with hair. The fore-wings are oblong, 

 with transverse lines. The larva is stout, naked, and gibbous 

 above, and the pupa is robust, obtuse, narrowed behind and 

 enclosed in a dense ovate cocoon. Several species from 

 different parts of the world are referred to this genus. The 

 single European species flies by day. 



THE FESTOON MOTH. APODA AVELLANA. 



Tortrix avellana, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 531, no. 210 



(1758) ; id. Faun. Suec. p. 344 (1761). 

 Bombyx limacodes, Hufnagel, Berl. Mag. iii. p. 402, no. 78 



(1776); Esper, Schmett. iii. p. 140, Taf. 26, figs. 39 



(1784). 



Bombyx sulphured^ Fabricius, Gen. Ins. p. 279 (1777). 

 Phalana Umax, Borkhausen, Eur. Schmett. iii. p. 449 (1780). 

 Bombyx testudo^ Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 121, no. 116 



(1787). 

 Bombyx bufo, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 121, no. 118 (1787). 



