ANAPHE. 239 



ochreous, with two rust coloured lines on each side, and the 

 abdomen is coloured like the hind-wings. 



The larva, which is pilose and not humped, is at first 

 blackish ; but when full-grown it is dark brown with numerous 

 yellow longitudinal stripes, interrupted at the incisions by a 

 yellow transverse band. The head is black, as well as the outer 

 side of the legs. It is a gregarious larva, and consumes the leaves 

 of the elm (especially the wych elm), oak, lime, and willow. 

 By thus feeding in company they often strip a tree of a large 

 portion of its foliage in a very short time. When freshly 

 emerged, the larvae arrange themselves side by side, in con- 

 siderable detachments, and commencing at one end of a leaf, 

 eat their way to the other, consuming the parenchyma or 

 pulpy substance only half-way through. When they have 

 attained their full growth, which is usually by September, they 

 drop to the ground, into which they burrow, and change into a 

 dark brown pupa. 



GENUS ANAPHE. 



Anaphe, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. iv. p. 856 (1855); 



Walsingham, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. (2) ii. p. 421 



(1885). 

 Arctiomorpha, Herrich-Schaffer, Aussereurop, Schmett. i. p. 1 1 



(1855). 

 J9feMAf&,Wallengren, K. Vet. Akad. Handl. Stockh. (2) v. (4) p. 



5i (1865). 



This genus is confined to Africa, and its position is some- 

 what uncertain, as it has been referred by different authors to 

 the Arctiidcz, Liparidce, or Notodontidce. The antennae are 

 pectinated in the male ; the body is stout, pubescent, and tufted, 

 and extends a little beyond the hind-wings, and the wings are 

 rather long, broad, and rounded at the extremities. The moths 

 are of a creamy-white, with a narrow reddish-brown stripe 



