368 CATALOGUE OF 



Stirps IV.— Larvae CUSPIDATE. 



PHALiEtfA sect. Bombtces, pt. Linnceus, 8. N. (1767). 



Bombtces (Larvce S. T. A. E.), Denis et Scliieffermuller, Wien. Verz. 



(1776). 

 Bombtcida (Stirps V. Cuspidata), DZorsfield, Gatal. Lep. Mus. 



MIC. pp. 26, 27 (1828). 

 Bombtx,^. Haworth, Lep. Brit. (1803). 

 Bombtx, sect. Legitime, pt. Latreille. 

 Notodontid-E, pt. et Plattpteeicida, Stephens, HI. Brit. Ins. 



Haust. 11. p. 10 (1829) ; III. p. 141 (1831) ; IV. p. 3 (1834). 

 Notodonta, pt. Newman, SpJi. Vesp. p. 42 (1832). 

 AncTiiDM, pt. Westwood, Introd. II. p. 384 (1840). 



Larvae greatly diversified in form. In their transformations they 

 present four sections. 



Section I. 



Larva with fourteen legs, naked, with one or several dorsal promi- 

 nences on the anterior segments ; anal pro-legs obsolete, replaced by 

 a single projecting tail ; has the peculiarity of holding the anterior 

 and posterior segments erect when at rest. Metamorphosis : — Cocoon 

 of a slight silken texture, attached to leaves. 



The perfect insect has broad wings, the fore-wings being generally 

 falcate at the tips ; flies by twilight and darkness ; antennae pecti- 

 nated or bipectinated in the male, less so or filiform in the female ; 

 proboscis short or invisible. 



Bombtces (Larvce T. Cuspidate, pt.), Denis et ScMeffermuller, 



Wien. Verz. p. 64 (1776). 

 Phal^nites, pt. Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Ins. IV. pp. 191, 226 



(1809). 

 Plattptebicida, pt. Duncan, in Brewster's JEdinb. Encycl. IX. p. 134 



(1830). 

 Plattptebicida, StepJiens, III. Brit. Ins. BZaust. III. p. 141 (1831) ; 



id. IV. p. 3 (1834) ; id. Gatal. Brit. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 228 



(1850). Duponchel, Catal. Meth. Lep. Eur. p. 85 (1846). 

 Notodonta, pt. et Notodontites, pt. Newman, SpJi. Vesp. p. 42 



