LEPIBOPTERA. 383 



Stirps V.— Larvae VERTICILkAT^ 



The larva of this stirps is elongate and robust, presenting the fol- 

 lowing modifications t — 



(a) A larva bearing on its entire length short tubercles terminated 

 by a whorl (or verticill) of short star-like diverging hairs (jpilis stel- 

 latim divergentibus) . 



(b) In the genus Attacus the larva is armed, in place of the 

 diverging tufts, with long or short fleshy spines. 



Metamorphosis t — Cocoon large, of a fine or coarse but firm silken 

 texture, either of a lengthened oval shape and attenuated or pointed 

 at each end, or pyriform or quite oval, exceedingly firm, and attached 

 to a twig by a long silken footstalk. 



The perfect insect has very large broad wings, the fore-wings being 

 more or less falcate or rounded at the tips ; generally with an ocellus, 

 which is varied in size and form, and whose disc is partially or wholly 

 vitreous ; in some genera the hind-wing is produced anally into a 

 long tail. Plight nocturnal ; antennae very deeply bipectinated in 

 the male, with the branches in pairs ', less so in the female, with the 

 branches also in pairs or single ; proboscis short and distinct, or in- 

 visible or obsolete ; abdomen small in the male, very large and stout 

 in the female. 



Phal^na, sect. Attach, |>£. Linncem, S. 2ST. (1767). 



Bombyces (iffrva B. Verticill at^), Denis et Schieffermuller, Wien* 



Verz. p. 49(1776). 

 Bombycid.& (Stirps II. "Veeticillata, pt,), HorsfieTd, Gatal. Lep-. 



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

 Bombyx,jpj5. Haworth, Lep. Brit. pp. 76, 78 (1803). 

 Bombtcites Legitime, pt. Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Ins. IV. p. 217 



(1809). 

 Bombtcida, pU Duncan, in Brewster's Edmb. EncgcU IX. p% 131 



(1830). 

 Phaljeiue et Bsal^nites, Newman, Spfo Vesp. p. 45 (1832) ; id* 



Entom. Mag. 11. p. 383 (1834) 5 id, Hist, of Ins. 2nd edit, p. 212 



(1841). 

 Bombtcida, pt. Stephens, III. Brit, Ins. BZwast. II. p. 35 (1829) ; 



id. Gatal. Brit. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 44 (1850). Westwood, Intr. 



11. p. 379 (1840). Swawson, Cabinet Cyclop, p. 105 (1840). 



VOL. II. 3 D 



