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on each wing, marked with a small black eye, which stands near 

 the inside of the band on the fore wings, and near the middle on 

 the hind wings ; the tip of the abdomen is reddish. 



Ceratocampa, Harr., is a genus hardly belonging to this family. 

 The species are five or six inches in expanse, and have moderately 

 long and pointed wings. C. Imperialis, Drury, is yellow, speckled 

 with black j the body is marked with red, and the wings are 

 clouded and barred with brown and reddish ; there is a small eye 

 in the middle of all the wings, that on the upper side of the fore 

 wings being almost obliterated. All the species of this genus are 

 American, and C. Imperialis is not uncommon in the Southern 

 United States. 



Brahmcea, Walk., is another genus of somewhat doubtful posi- 

 tion, which has been referred to the Saturniidce, but which probably 

 belongs to the Lasiocampidce. The species all inhabit different 

 parts of Asia, except the north-west; and the west coast of 

 Africa. They are very handsome dark-brown insects, about five 

 or six inches in expanse, with very numerous undulating black 

 lines, and a large round mark on the inner margin of the fore 

 wings, which has a raised appearance by an optical effect similar 

 to that observed in the spots of the Argus Pheasant. 



FAMILY XIII. Bombycidce. 



Size moderate ; antennae pectinated ; wings broad ; fore wings 

 slightly falcate ; larva naked, somewhat resembling that of a 

 Sphinx. 



Bomlyx Mori, Linn., the common Mulberry Silkworm, is the 

 type of this small family. The moth is about an inch and a half 

 in expanse, and is of a yellowish white, with two transverse brown 

 lines. It is very sluggish, and the domesticated insect is incap- 

 able of flight. The larva is of a dirty white, but in the original 

 wild stock it was probably brown. The cocoon is about the size 

 of a pigeon's egg, and is of a white or yellow colour. 



The silkworm was originally a native of China, but has been 

 reared in the south of Europe for about 1300 years. 



The Kentish Glory (Endromis Versicolor, Linn.) has brown fore 

 wings, with white lines and markings ; and the hind wings are 

 yellowish brown in the male, and white in the female, with brown 

 markings. It expands about two inches and a half, and is a local 

 insect, nowhere very common, though widely distributed ; the male 

 flies rapidly in search of the female, by day, like several of the 



