48 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY 



the back. On both sides is a pale reddish stripe, and on the 

 back a pale longitudinal line bordered with black. On the 

 upper part of each segment, from the fourth to the eighth, 

 are two indistinct oblique brown streaks, which approximate 

 somewhat towards the incisions, and are best marked on the 

 eleventh and twelfth segments. When young, the larva is 

 green. 



The pupa is dark brown, and the moth appears in June or 

 July. 



SUB-FAMILY VIII. ORTHOSIIN^E. 



This group much resembles the last, but the antennae are 

 generally strongly pectinated, dentated, or ciliated, at least in the 

 males. The body is stout and very hairy; and the extremity of 

 the abdomen is often depressed. The transverse lines of the 

 fore-wings, and the orbicular and reniform stigmata, are more 

 or less distinctly marked, and the reniform stigma is nearly 

 always marked with blackish below. In repose the fore-wings 

 cover the hind-wings, and slightly overlap. 



The larvae are cylindrical, velvety, with a round head, and 

 without tubercles. They feed on trees or low plants, and hide 

 themselves during the day. 



The moths, which have generally brown, reddish-brown, or 

 yellow fore-wings, and brown or grey hind-wings, mostly appear 

 in spring and autumn, and many of the rarest, as well as the 

 commonest, species are to be found sipping the flowers of 

 sallows and ivy. Many of the species are very variable. 



GENUS CUPHANOA. 



Cuphanoa, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 230 (1822 ?). 

 T(zniocampa> Guenee, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, viii. p. 477 

 (1839) ; id. Spec. Ge*n. Lpid. Noct. i. p. 346 (1852). 



