LEP1D0PTERA. 431 



spots in front, and one on each side ; base of abdomen black. 

 Expanse l-§- in. 



a. $ . Java. From Dr. Horsfield's Collection. 



Section II. 



Larva elongate, finely pilose, somewhat gregarious. Metamor- 

 phosis in a slight subterranean folliculus. 



The perfect insect has long wings, and flies by darkness ; antennae 

 slightly bipectinated in the male, simple or slightly serrated in the 

 female ; proboscis short ; abdomen long, stout. 



Phabjgna sect. Bombyces,^. Linnaeus, S. N. I. II. (1767). 

 Bombtces (Larvce M. Subpilos^;), pt. Denis et Scliieffer mutter, 



Wien. Verz.p. 59 (1776). 

 Bomb yx, pt. Haworih, Lep. Brit. p. 76 (1803) . 

 Notodontid^, pt. Stephens, III. Brit. Ins. Haust. II. p. 10 (1829); 



id. Catal. Brit. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 37 (1850) . Newman, Spli. Vesp. 



p. 42 (1832). Walker, List Lep. Ret. Brit. Mus. pt. IV. p. 977 



(1855). Stainton, Manual Brit. Lep. pp. 107, 114 (1856). 

 Notodontites, pt. Newman, JEntom. Mag. II. p. 383 (1834) ; id. 



Hist, of Ins. 2nd edit. p. 213 (1841). 

 Abctiid^:, pt. Westwood, Intr. II. p. 384 (1840). 

 Notodontides, pt. Boisduval, Ind. Meth.p. 84 (1840). Blancliard, 



Hist. Nat. des Ins. II. p. 365 (1845). 

 Pyg^ebites, pt. Blancliard, Hist. Nat. des Ins. II. p. 365 (1845). 

 VyGtMuidm, Duponchel, Catal. Meth. Eur. Lep. p. 95 (1846). 

 Pygebidi, Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 37 (1850). 



Genus ANTHEUA, Walker. 



Anthefa, Walker, List Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. pt. III. p. 687 



{May \UTi, 1855). 

 Diastema, Herr. Scli'dffer, Lep. Eocot. Spec. Nov. Jig. 379 (1855). 



977. ANTHEUA DISCALIS, Walker [PlateXIIIa,fiff. 4,<?). 

 Antheua discalis, Walker, List Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. 

 pt. III. p. 767 (1855). 



a. b. c. d. $ ? . Java. From Dr. Horsfield's Col- 

 lection. 



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