228 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



It draws a leaf together with fine threads, and forms a short, 

 elliptical brown cocoon. 



The pupa is shining, transparent whitish-brown. 



The New Forest is the chief locality for this Moth in Eng- 

 land. 



FAMILY XXVT. NOTODONTID/F, 



Egg. Circular or button-shaped, flattened beneath, and 

 sometimes depressed above. 



Larva. Naked, more or less gibbous before and behind, and 

 with the anal claspers often modified into short or long slen- 

 der appendages. 



Pupa. Enclosed in a cocoon, either between leaves, or at- 

 tached to the bark of trees. 



Imago. With the wings considerably longer than broad, and 

 usually of plain colours, rarely dentated, but frequently with a 

 very conspicuous tooth on the inner margin of the fore-wings. 

 Body stout, pubescent, sometimes tufted, and generally longer 

 than the hind-wings; antennae frequently more or less strongly 

 pectinated in the male. 



Proboscis and ocelli present or absent ; fore-wing with one 

 sub-median nervure, and sometimes with a prediscoidal cell ; 

 hind-wings with the costal nervure distinct from the sub-costal, 

 but often approximating, and sometimes connected with it by 

 a cross-nervule ; two sub-median nervules. 



Flight nocturnal. 



This is a Family of considerable extent, which has relation- 

 ships with the Spkingufe t Noctua, and, in the larval state 

 only, with the Drepanulidce. The forms assumed by the larvre 

 are often very curious, and several are here figured. The 

 Notodontidcc are well represented in Europe. 



