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Stirps VI.— Larvae LIMACIFORMES. 



Larva limaciform, oblong, convex above, provided with fleshy- 

 protuberances of various size, arranged along tbe back, rarely more 

 lengthened anteriorly and posteriorly, and crested with numerous 

 short rigid hairs. In some cases these protuberances are limited to 

 the sides, in others the surface is entirely naked. Underneath plain, 

 with rudimentary legs. 



Metamorphosis : — Cocoon oval or round, of a firm texture through- 

 out, sometimes with a slight silken outer covering, the imago escaping 

 through a well-defined circular opening representing an operculum. 

 Generally attached to leaves. 



The perfect insect has somewhat short and broad wings ; flies by 

 day. Antennae simple, or nearly so. in both sexes, or bipectinated to 

 about one-third the length, or moderately bipectinated throughout 

 in the male, and simple in the female ; proboscis very short, invisible 

 or obsolete ; body stout. 



Bombtces {Larva V. Limacieoemes), Denis et Schieffervnuller, 



Wien. Verz.p. 65 (1776). 

 Bombtcid^; (Stirps II. pt.), BZorsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. JE.I.C. 



pp. 24, 27 (1828). 

 AECTimiE, pt. Stephens, III. Brit. Ins. II, p. 54 (1829) ; id. Catal. 



Brit. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 49 (1850). Westioood, Intr. II. 



p. 384 (1840), 

 Cocliopodes, Boisduval, Ind. Meth.p. 81 (1840). 

 Limacodites, Blanchard, Hist. Nat. des Ins. II. p. 364 (1845). 

 LiMACODiDiE, Duponchel, Catal. Me'th. Bur. Lep. p. 84 (1846). 

 Limacodidi, Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 57 (1850). 

 CocHLioPODiD-a;, Stainton, Manual Brit. Lep. pp. 108, 168 



(1856). 

 Platypterycldes, pt. Blanchard. 

 Notodontidj;, pt. Walker. 

 Cossina, pt. LTerr. Schaffer, Lep. Exot. Spec. Nov. p. 58 (1858). 



