gQ BRITISH MOTHS 



SPECIES 1.— DENDROLIMUS I'lNI. Plate XII., Fig. 1—3. 



SvNONVMEs. — PAo/. (Bomb.) Pini, Linnaeus; Wilkes, pi. 01; j Kutricha Fini,iilc]>heus ; Wood, Ind. Ent., lab. 6, fig. 51. 

 nonovan, vol. 5, pi. 177, 178. Lasiocampa Pini, Boi5duv.1l ; llUbner, Verz. bek. .Sclim. 



Odoneslis Pini, Curtis, B. E., pi. 7. 

 This fine and extremely rare species varies from 2^ to 3^ inches in expanse. The fore wings are dark grey 

 at the base, witli a white spot in a dark patch before the middle, followed by an obsolete ashy bar, tlien a lobed 

 reddish bar beyond the middle, edged before and behind with a grey line spotted with blackish, the extremity 

 of the win" being greyish-ashy coloured ; the hind wings and body are reddish-grey. The female is much 

 larger and paler-coloured than tlic male, the fore wings reddish-grey with the white spot, and tlie hind wings 



unspotted. 



The caterpillar is variegated with red, brown, grey, and white, with two blue fascite near the head, spotted 

 ;it the sides with red ; it is tufted with hairs, one thicker than the rest near the tail. It feeds on pine-trees, the 

 ima"o appearing at tlie end of July. 



Specimens of this moth were contained in several old EngHsh collections, but the only recorded instances of 

 its capture in England, are a caterpillar taken in September 1748, in Richmond Park, by Wilkes, and a male 

 moth captured by Mr. Sparshall in the Norwich Hospital on the 22nd July, 1809, which is now in the 

 British Jluscuni. 



GASTROPACHA (spec, typ.), Oohsexheimer. 



This genus is well distinguished by its robust form, very curved antenna;, denticulated wings, thick abdomen, 

 (whence the generic name, derived from the Greek,) destitute of an anal tuft, elongated palpi advanced like a 

 beak in front, and antennie nearly alike in both sexes. The remarkable appearance which the insects exhibit 

 when at rest, as represented in our figure 5, is caused by the dilated margins of the hind wings extending 

 beyond the costa of the fure wings, which, joined to the colours of the insects, gives them the appearance of dead 

 leaves of the oak and other trees. 



SPECIES 1.— GASTROPACHA QUERCIFOLIA. Plate XII., Fi.;. 4—7. 



.SvNoNVMF^. — Plial. (Bo.) QuercifoKa, Linnteus ; Albin, pi. IG; , Knt., pi. '24 ; Wood, Iiid. Ent., t;ib. 6, f. o3: Duncun, Bril. Mollis, 

 AA'ilke*, pi. 57 ; Harris, Aurcliun, pi. 4-', fiir. a — c ; Donovan, vol. 7, pi. '8, liij. 3, 4. 

 pi. 332. Phyllodesma Qticrcifolia, Iliibner, Vei7.. bek. Schni. 



Gaxtrtipavhtt Qucrcifolia, Oclisenheinier ; Stephens ; Curtis, Brit, | 



This fine insect measures from 2i to 3^ inches in expanse. The general colour is dark rich chesnut, the 

 extremity of the wings sufi'used with a pale lilac bloom ; the fore wings with three oblique waved black stripes, 

 and a black spot between the two nearest the body ; the hind wings are unspotted, the outer edge redder than 

 the rest ; the palpi are black. Varieties occur in the greater or less distinctness of the stripes, which sometimes 

 run across tlie hind wings. The caterpillar is very large, and remarkable for having the sides of its body 

 furnished with fleshy appendages, whence the moth has received the name of the " Lappet ;" it is dark-grey 

 or brownish, with two dark-blue stripes near the head, and with fascicles of hairs, the one on the penultimate 

 segment being the largest. The chrysalis is thickly powdered with a white bloom. It feeds on willows, 



