LEPIDOPTERA. 335 



Stirps II.— Larvae FASCICULATE. 



The larva of this stirps is characteristically fasciculate, being 

 covered with fascicles or tufts of silken hairs ; several of these tufts 

 are short, dense, disposed along the back, and limited to certain seg- 

 ments, while others are more lengthened, projecting anteriorly or 

 posteriorly, or both anteriorly and posteriorly. In some genera these 

 fascicles are replaced by short hairs arising from separate tubercles. 

 Metamorphosis : — Cocoon soft, irregular on the surface, of a slight 

 silken and hairy texture. 



The perfect insect has the wings broad in the male, longer, or only 

 rudimentary, in the female ; flies by day and evening. Antennae 

 deeply bipectinated in the male, less so in the female. Proboscis very 

 short, or obsolete. Abdomen of male slender, of female larger, broad, 

 and generally with an anal tuft. Fore-legs very hairy. 



Phalena sect. Bombyces,^. Linnaeus, S. AT. I. II. (1767). 

 Bombtces (Larvae D. Gr. H. Fasciculate, Nodose, et Cristate), 



Denis et Schieffermuller, Wien. Verz. pp. 51, 54, 55 (1776). 

 Bombycide (Stirps I. Fasciculate, pt.), Horsfeld, Qatal. Lep. 



Mus. E.I.C. pp. 24, 27 (1828). 

 Bombyx,^. Haworth, Lep. Brit. pp. 76, 77, 124 (1803). 

 Bombycites, sect. Legitime, pt. Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Ins. IV. 



p. 217 (1809). 

 Arctiide, pt. Leach, Edmb. Encycl. p. (1815). Stephens, III. 



Brit. Ins. BZaust. II. p. 54 (1828) ; id. Catal. Brit. Lep. Brit. 



Mus. p. 49 (1850). Westwood, Introd. II. p. 384 (1840). 

 Hypogymne, Leucome, et Dasychire, Hiibner, Zutrage, p. 4 



(1818). 

 Bombycida, pt. Duncan, in Brewster's Edinb. Encycl. IX. p. 132 



(1830). 

 Notodonte et Larie, pt. Newman, Sph. Vesp. pp. 42, 44 (1832). 

 Arctiites et Notodontites, pt. Newman, Entom. May. II. p. 383 



(1834) ; id. Hist, of Ins. 2nd edit. pp. 212, 213 (1841). 

 Liparides et Notodontides, pt. Boisduval, Ind. Meth. pp. 66, 84 



(1840). 

 Liparites et Pvgerites, pt. Blanchard, Hist. Nat. des Ins. II, 



pp. 362, 365 (1845). 



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