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brown or bufl'-frcy, marbled witl) brown and black, the base varied with two dark waved stripes, followed by a 

 pale one, then a broader brown bar followed by a very pale one, rounded beliind with a waved line of brown, 

 which is dilated at the fore and hind margins into a patch ; the cilia is alternately brown and white ; the hind 

 wings pale, with a darker bar across tiie middle. The gi-ound colour of the fore wings is, however, liable to vary 

 considerably, being occasionally much more suffased with brown than in our figure. One of these varieties was 

 described by Jlr. Ilaworth as distinct, and supposed by him to bo the Bombyx querna of Fabricius. 



The caterpillar is pale green, with a grey dorsal line, and a lateral yellow lino spotted with red, and a blue 

 head. It feeds on the oak in September; the moth appears in May and June, and is rather rare in the woods 

 round London. It is also found in other parts of the country. 



Bombyx QnEBNA (Fabricius ; Wiener Verzeichniss ; Wood, tab. 53, fig. 38 ; and our figures 16 and 17) ; 

 is a distinct species, not hitherto detected in this country, although a variety of the preceding was considered by 

 Mr. Haworth as identical with it ; it has the fore wings grey, with tliree waved black stripes margined with 

 white, the basal one being very minute ; before the last of these stripes is a whitish lunulated mark. The hind 

 wings are entirely whitish. Tbe caterpillar is gibbous behind, green with four yellow longitudinal lines and 

 black spiracles. It is found on the oak in August, and the moth appears in Jlay and June. 



SPECIES 2— DRYMONLA. CHAONTA. Plate XIV., Fig. 13, U. 



Bomhii^v lioljorls, Fabricius; Haworth ; Donovan, vol. ix., pi. 299; 

 Stephens (Chaonia Roh.) ; Wiidd, InJ. Eiit. pi. 6, lig. 34. 



SvNONVMEs. — Botnbtf.v Chaonia, Wicn. Vcrz. ; Hiibncr ; Ochseu- 

 heimer (N'otod. ch.) ; Gojart ; Boisdiival ; Curtis; Hiibncr, Vcrz. 

 bek. Schin. (Drvmonia ch.). 



This species measures from I] to I-f inch in the expanse of the foro wings, which are of a pale ashy-grey 

 colour, with two undulated transverse whitish bars edged with dusky, and a middle black lunule on a broad 

 central whitish fascia ; near the outer margin is a pale and almost obsolete curved streak ; the hind wings are 

 grey-brown, with indistinct pale transverse bars, and a dusky lunule in the centre. 



The caterpillar is pale green, with dorsal and lateral yellow lines ; it feeds on the oak, birch, and hazel, 

 and is found in September, and the moth appears in Jlav and .Iiine. It is a rather scarce species, but is 

 occasionally found in the woods near London, as well as in Suffolk, Devonshire, and Worcestershire. 



GLUPHISIA*, BoisDuvAL. (Geiv. & Ind. Meth.) 



M. Boisduval, in his recent work, separates the type of this genus from the rest of his Notodontse (including 

 Drynionia), with the following characters — antonnsB of the male broadly pectinated ; palpi of the ordinary form ; 

 wings short and rather broad ; the anterior without the lobe on the hind margin ; the caterpillars smooth, 

 depressed, glabrous. Chrysalis inclosed in a slight cocoon amongst leaves. 



From the Greek, in allusion to the crenated malkings of the typical species. 



