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B. Quercus mulLo minor et ab illa facile di- 

 slincla alis posticis immaculatis. Mas obscuiius 



feiTLigineus. 



Larva gracilior, mollis, obscure lutescens, 

 sericeo-pilosa, linea laterali flavida, incisuris ni- 

 gris, coeiuleo-punctatis; capile rufo. Hab. in 

 Trifolio pratensi, Medicagine falcata, Plantagine etc. 

 Pupa tota dilutius brunnea, folliculo ovali-cylin- 

 drico, duriusculo. 



Gen. XIII. Odonestis. Gep^m. Ochs. 

 Lasiocampa, Boisd. olim. Gastropacha. Ochs. 



Antennae late pectinalae. Palpi 2 porrecti, 

 rostriformes, 3 articulati, valde pilosi, medio di- 

 latati, apice attenuati, oblique desceudentes. Lin- 

 gua brevissima, Alae denticulatae, stigmate di- 

 scoidali strigaque obliqua, sub-repanda siguatae. 



Larvae gramiuivorae, autice posticeque peui- 

 cillatae, dorso breviter tenueque fasciculatee; la- 

 teribus pilis reclinatis dense vestita^. FoUiculus 

 late fusiformis. 



Genus palporum stiuctura a praecedenli bene 

 distinctum. 



1. potatoria: mas ferrugineus, femina ochraceo- 

 Intescens; alls anlicis striga obliqua in apice 

 desinente aliaque exteriori, deiUala, fuscis, 

 niaculisque duabus parvis, aibis. — Long. 

 al. exp. ef' 50 — 5t1-, ? 66 — 70 millim. 



Bomhyx potatoria. Lins. Sy st. Na t. I. II. 813. 23. 



— Fabr. Ent. Syst. III. 1. 425. 58. — Roesel. 



I. Cl. 2. T. II. f. 1—8. — HiiBN. Bomb. T. 41. 



f. 182. o^. f. 183. 9. — GoDART. Lep. IV. p. 



92. T. VIII. f. 3. &. 

 Gastropacha potatoria. Ochs, Schm. v. E. III. 256. 7. 

 Bomhyx potatorius. Haworth Lep. Bj-. 84. 8. 



