LEPIDOPTERA. 429 



Stirps VIII.— Larvae LIGNIVOR^l. 



Phal^na sect. Bombtces, pt. Linnceus, 8. 1ST. (1767). 



Phaljena sect. Nocttle, pt. Linnceus, 8. JV. I. II. pp. 809, 833 



(1767). 

 Bombtces {Larvae M. N. 0.), Denis et Schieffermuller, Wien. Verz. 



pp. 59, 60 (1776). 

 BoMBYcma: (Stirps IV. Ltghstvoba), Horsjield, Gatal. Lep. Mus. 



MIC. pp. 25, 27 (1828). 

 Bombtcites, pt. Latreille. 



This stirps present in their transformations three sections. 



Section I. 



Larva naked, vermiform ; constructs a portable silken case (or 

 habitaculum*), which is, in most genera, fortified exteriorly with 

 pieces of grass-stems, or sticks, or leaves, &c, in which it resides 

 and undergoes its transformations. 



The perfect insect has, generally, in the male, long and narrow 

 wings ; flies by day ; antennae either bipectinated throughout, or only 

 so at the base, with the tip filiform or serrated, or ciliated ; proboscis 

 obsolete ; abdomen long, slender, and extensile. The female gene- 

 rally (?) wingless, and, as in Psyche, vermiform, with rudimentary legs 

 and antennas, and seldom or never quits her case, but receives the 

 caresses of the male whilst still confined within. In the genus 

 Fumea the female is araneiform, and has legs and simple antennae, 

 and emerges from her case and sits on the outside. 



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



(1809). 

 Abctiid-ZB, pt. Stephens, III. Brit. Ins. Haust. II. p. 54 (1829) ; 



id. Catal. Brit. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 49 (1850). Westwood, Intr. 



11.^.384(1840). 



Pstchides, Boisduval, Ind. Meth. p. 78 (1840). BlancJiard, Hist. 

 Nat. des Ins. II. p. 363 (1845). Newman, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. n. s. III. p. 7 (1854). 



* Lansdown Guilding, Trans. Linn. Soc. XV. p. 374 (1827). 



