LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 871 



Hypogymna, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. 55. 

 Psilura, Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. 57. Herr.-Schaff. ; 

 Westw. 



Male and female. Body stout or rather slender, with smooth 

 hairs. Proboscis very short or obsolete. Palpi moderately long, 

 extending a little beyond the head ; second joint about four times 

 the length of the first ; third conical, very minute. Legs stout, 

 slightly pilose ; hind tibiae with four minute spurs. Wings rather 

 long and broad. Fore wings hardly convex along the costa, 

 rounded at the tips ; first and second inferior veins contiguous at 

 the base ; third hardly further from the fourth than from the second. 

 Frena composed of several bristles. Male. — Antennae moderately 

 or deeply pectinated. Abdomen more or less slender, not extend- 

 ing beyond the hind wings. Wings often broader than those of the 

 female. Female. — Antenna) serrated or minutely pectinated, much 

 shorter than those of the male. Abdomen more or less stout, ex- 

 tending more or less beyond the hind wings, sometimes pointed, 

 sometimes thickly lanuginose at the tip. 



1. Ltmantria Monacha. 



Alba; abdomen versus anum roseum ; alee anticce punctis antice 

 albo atro undata, puncto et lunula medio nigris. 



Phalaena-Bombyx Monacha, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 821 ; Faun. Suec. 



1 130. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2421, 43. Berk. Syn. i. 136. 



Don. Nat. Hist. Brit. Ins. V. M. pi. 227. Stew. El. Nat. Hist. 



ii. 130. Turt. Syst. Nat. iii. 211. 

 Phalaena Monacha, Wilkes, 22, pi. 42. 

 Bombyx Monacha, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 446, 119. Wien. Verz. 



52, D. 5. Borkh. Schmett. iii. 307, 116. Esp. Schmett. iii. 



pi. 37. Hubn. Bomb. pi. 19, f. 74 ; Larv. Lep. iii. Bomb. ii. 



Vera, C. a. f. 2. God. Pap. de France, iv. 259, pi. 25, f. 3, 4. 

 Bombyx Monachus, Haw . Lep. Brit. 87. 

 Laria Monacha, Schr. Meig. Handb. 122, 46; Syst. Beschr. Eur. 



Schmett, iii. 5, 5, pi. 81, 8. 

 Liparis Monacha, Ochs. Schmett. von Eur. iii. 192, 4 ; iv. 55, 4. 



Freyer, Neue Lepid. Brit. ii. 5, 177, pi. 98, f. 2, 3. 

 Lymantria Monacha, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. (Phalcence Vera Leu- 



coma Undata), 160, 1667. 

 Psilura Monacha, Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. 57, 1. Herr.- 



Samml. Eur. Schmett. Suppl. ii. Text, 137, 22, 1. 



Var. /3. Nigro-cinerea ; abdomen sordide albidum vitta dorsali 

 apice maculisque lateralibus nigris ; ala antica nigro varia, 

 fascia obliqua undulosa subapicali albida ; postica fusees- 

 centes. 



