LEPIDOPTERA, 419 



Stirps VII.— Larvae PILOSE. 



Larva elongate, pilose ; some genera gregarious, others so only 

 when young : either covered with silken hairs, arranged uniformly or 

 in tufts, some being provided with a dense anterior and posterior 

 tuft, or an elongated fascicle projects forward from each side of 

 the head ; or, having several rows or a single lateral row of fleshy 

 protuberances, from which springs a tuft of silken hairs ; also two 

 transverse anterior short dense tufts and a single or double posterior 

 protuberance. 



Metamorphosis : — Cocoon oval, firm, elongated, or fusiform, and of 

 a slight texture. 



The perfect insect has short broad wings in the male, longer and 

 more ample in the female, and when at rest the hind-wings project 

 beyond the anterior margin of the fore-wings ; flies by day, at dusk, 

 or after dark. Antennse of the male deeply bipectinated, less so in 

 the female, or bipectinated at the base only, and less so thence to 

 the tip in the male, and either moderately bipectinated, serrated, or 

 simple in the female ; proboscis very short, invisible, or obsolete; 

 abdomen long and attenuated in the male, very stout and generally 

 with a lanuginose anal tuft in the female. 



Phal^na sect. Bombtces,^^ Linnaeus S. N. (1767). 



Bombtces {Larvae J. K. L. Collari.^, Villosjj! et Pilose), Denis 



et Schieffermuller, Wien. Verz. pp. 56, 57 (1776). 

 BoMBYCiDiE {Stirps III. Pilose), Horsjield, Catal. Lep. Mus. 



B.I.C. pp. 25, 27 (1828). 

 Bombvx, pt. BZaworth, Lep. Brit. pp. 76, 95 (1803). 

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



p. 217 (1809). 

 BoMBYCiDiE, pt. Stephens, III. Brit. Ins. Haust. II. p. 35 (1829) ; 



id. Catal. Brit. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 4<4i (1850). Westwood, 



Intr. II. p. 379 (1840). Duponchel, Catal. Meth. Mir. Lep. 



p. 74< (1846). Walker, List Lep. Set. Brit. Mus. pt. VII. 



p. 1386 (1855). 

 Bombtcida, pt. Duncan, in Brewster's Bdinb. Encycl. IX. p. 131 



(1830). 

 Bombyces et Bombycites, Newman, Sph. Vesp. p. 41 (1832) ; id. 



