354 CATALOGUE OF 



Stirps III.— LARVAE URSINE. 



The peculiar mark of this stirps is the great and nearly uniform 

 length of the silken hairs, arising from a common base along the 

 entire surface of the segments, which gives them a shaggy appear- 

 ance ; whence the name Ursince is derived. Metamorphosis : — 

 Cocoon of a somewhat dense silken and hairy texture. The perfect 

 insect has narrow or large broad wings ; flies by day or in the even- 

 ing ; antenna? bipectinated in the male, minutely so or biserrated in 

 the female, or filiform in both sexes ; proboscis short, or obsolete ; 

 abdomen of male slender, of female stout. 



This stirps comprises the most beautiful moths of the whole tribe, 

 which are denominated in the "Wien. Verz. as "Papiliones nobiles." 



PHALiBNA, sect. Bombyces, pt. LinncBus, S. N. I. II. (1767). 

 Bombtces (Larvce P. E. Celeeipedes et UESiNiE), Denis et Schieffer- 



muller, Wien. Verz. pp. 52, 54 (1776). 

 Bombyx,^. Haworth, Lep. Brit. pp. 76, 78 (1803). 

 Noctuo-Bombycites,^. Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Ins. IV. pp. 190, 



219 (1809). 

 BoMBTCiDiE (Stirps I. Fasciculate pt.), Horsfield, Gatal. Lep. 



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

 Abctiide, pt. Leach, Edinb. Encycl. p. (1815). Stephens, III. 



Brit. Ins. Haust. II. p. 54 (1829) ; id. Gatal. Brit. Lep. Brit. 



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

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



(1830). 

 Arctic, pt. et Labie, pt. Newman, Sph. Vesp.p. 44 (1832). 

 Abctiade, Swainson, Cabinet Cyclop, p. 106 (1840). 

 Chelonides, Boisduval, Ind. Meth.p. 61 (1840). 

 Aectiites, pt. Newman, Entom. Mag. II. p. 383 (1834) ; id. Hist. 



of Ins. 2nd edit. p. 212 (1841). Blanchard, Hist. Nat. des Ins. 



II. p. 362 (1845). 

 Chelonidi, Stephens, Gatal. Brit. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 52 (1850). 

 Abctiide, Lipaeide, pt. et DEEPANULiDiE, pt. Walker, List Lep. 



Het. Brit. Mus. (1855). 

 CuELONiDiE, pt. Stainton, Manual Brit. Lep. pp. 107, 142 (1856). 

 Lipaeidina, pt. et Aectioidea, Herr. Schdffer, Lep. Exot. Spec. 



Nov. pp. 69, 71 (1858). 



