AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. -g 



ENDROMIS *, OcHSENHEiMKH. DORVILLIA, Leach. 



Tliis fine genus is distinguislioJ by its large, subdiaiilianous, Tariegatod wings, of which the great median 

 vein emits four branches, by which it may at unco he si'iiarated from all the adjacent genera, as well as from 

 Saturnia and Aglia (with which last it is united by Boisduval into a separate tribe under the name of Endromides). 

 The antenna- are bipectinated in both sexes. There is no lobe on the hind margin of the fore wings. The parts 

 of the mouth are extremely minute, and hidden by hairs. 



Tiie caterpillar is sphingiform, being attenuated in front, naked, and fleshy, with a conical protuberance 

 at the extremity of the body. The sides of its body are obliquely streaked, but th.. streaks run towards the 

 head ; whereas in the Sphingida? they run in the opposite dinxtion. The chrysalis is enclosed in a cocoon formed 

 of leaves on the ground. 



SPECIES 1.— ENDROMIS VERSICOLOR. Plate XVI., Fig. 1-3. 



SYNoNYMrs.— P/ia7. Bomb, versicolor. Liniixus ; Wilkes, pi. 8!) ; I JJrit. Kiit. pi. 434 ; Duncan, Brit. Mollis, pi. 16, fir. 3. (Endmmis v.) 

 Donov.in, vol. 5, pi. 158 ; Nealc in Ent. Trans, vol. i. pi. ,0 ; Curtis, | Wood, lud. Ent., pi. (!, fij. 38. 



This beautiful insect varies from 2^ to 3 1 inches iu the expanse of the fore wings, which are of an orano-e 

 brown colour, or fawn-buff, having a rather bent white stripe across near the base, edged behind with black ; 

 then a -^-like black mark at the extremity of the discoidal cell, followed by a very much bent white stripe, 

 edged before with black, and followed by several whitisli patches, of which three are more conspicuous near the 

 tip of the wings. The hind wings have a dark, angulatcd mark in the middle, and a pale bar beyond tiie middle, 

 edged in front with black and behind with brown, whicli latter colour is angulatcd. The female is less richly 

 coloured than the nuile. 



The caterpillar is green, with a yellow lateral Hue on the anterior segments, and paler oblique ones at the side 

 of the others. It feeds on birch, beech, lime, hazel, Sec, in June and July, and the moth appears in April flying 

 with great rapidity in Moods. It is found in the woods of Kent, whence its English name, and other parts of 

 the south of England. It has also been captured in Suffolk and Shropshire. 



DISPHRAGISf, Hlbxer. DILOBA, Boisduval. EPISEMA, Stephens, nec Bdv. 



This genus differs by having the two terminal branches of the median vein, and the single longitudinal one 

 which arises from the vein which closes the discoidal cell, originating close together, so as almost to radiate from 

 a point. The antennas are long, bipectinated in the males and simple in the females ; the fore wings are 

 destitute of a lobe on the hind margin ; the thorax is crested, the palpi are elongated, and the tongue is short. 

 The caterpillar is fleshy, marked with numerous small, black, setigerous tubercles. The chrysalis is enclosed in 



* This name was used by Martial for a rough, hairy dress, and alludes to the abdomen of the perfect moth. 

 f Named from the Greek, in allusion to the double mark on the wing. 



