LEPIDOPTERA. 297 
Sericaria, Lat., 
Where the superior wings present no dentations in their inner 
margin. 
S. dispar; B. dispar, Fab.; Rees., Insect., I, Class II, Pap. 
Noct. iii. The male much smaller than the female, his upper 
wings brown, with undulating blackish stripes; the female 
whitish, with black spots and streaks on the same wings. She 
covers her eggs with the numerous hairs on the extremity of 
her abdomen. The caterpillar is very often injurious to fruit- 
trees *, 
Noroponta, Ochs., 
Where the inner margin of the superior wing is dentated. 
This subgenus connects itself with certain Noctuz ft. 
Sometimes the females are almost apterous, as in 
Oreyia, Ochs. 
The caterpillars are furnished with crests and pencils of hairs. 
O. antiqua; B. antiqua, Fab.; Rees., Ibid., xxxix, the female ; 
lii, Class Il, Pap. Noct., xiii, the male. Superior wings of the 
male fulvous, with two transverse blackish stripes, and a white 
spot near the inner angle. ‘The abdomen of the female is very 
voluminous ¢. 
We now come to Pseudo-Bombyces, whose caterpillars are com- 
pelled to crawl, their feet being short, and even the squamous one 
being retractile. Their body is oval, resembling that of an Oniscus, 
and its skin is soldered above from the second ring, so that it forms 
an arch under which the head is withdrawn. 
These species form the subgenus 
Limacopes, Lat. 
Their caterpillars seem to represent, in this division, those of 
certain Diurnal Lepidoptera, such as the Polyommati §. 
The last of the Pseudo-Bombyces, without an apparent or at least 
useful proboscis, also present another anomaly in their first state. 
Their caterpillars, like those of several Tineites, live in portable 
dwellings consisting of a silken tube, on which they fix fragments of 
stems or twigs of various plants, forming little rods laid one over the 
* The Bombyz versicolor, bucephala, coryli, pudibunda, abietis, anachoreta, of Fab- 
ricius, or the genera Endromis, Liparis, Pyyera, and several species belonging to that 
of the Orgyia of Ochsenheimer. 
+ The Notodonte of the same, with the exception, however, of the species called 
palpina, which on account of its large and compressed palpi, and spirally rolled pro- 
boscis, should form a separate subgenus, connecting the Notodonte of that savant 
with his Calyptre, and which I place at the head of the Noctuz, in order to proceed 
thence to Xylena, Cuculia, &c.; some of the Notodonte have the thorax and crest, a 
character which appears more peculiar to this latter section. There are some of 
them in which the inferior palpi are strongly compressed. See our general observa- 
tions on that division of the Nocturne. 
t Add O. gnostigma, Ochs. ‘The others will be Sericarize. 
§ The Hepialus testudo, asellus, bufo, Fab. See Godard, Lépid. de France, 1V, 
2791, xxviii, 1, 2. 
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