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CATALOGUE OF 



Gastropacha, p., Ochs. ; Herr.-Schceff. 

 Dasyoma, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 185. 

 Megalopyge? Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 185. 



Body, palpi and legs very pilose. Body stout. Palpi very 

 short. Abdomen extending very little beyond the hind wings. 

 Wings moderately broad, thinly clothed. Fore wings straight along 

 the costa, very oblique on the exterior, almost conical in outline to- 

 wards the tips ; first and second inferior veins contiguous at 

 the base ; fourth springing from near the hase of the wing, full 

 twice further from the third than the third is from the second. 

 3/aZe.— Antennae deeply pectinated. Abdomen tufted at the tip. 

 Female.— Antennae minutely serrated. Abdomen densely lanugi- 

 nose at the tip. 



Europe. 



A. Cinereo lateritia ; alae anticae puncto medio albo. Catax, Linn. 



B. Mas luteus; fcem. fusca; alae anticae puncto medio strigaque 



^ postica flavis. Everia, Knock. 



C Fusco-ferruginea ; alae anticae macula basali et centrali striaque 

 pone banc albis. - - - - - lanestris, Linn, 



1. Eriogaster Catax. 

 Alee corticince unicolores ; anticce puncto albo. 



Phalaena-Bombyx Catax, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 815,27; Faun. Suec, 



ii. 293, 1108. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2412, 27. 

 Bombyx Catax, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 179, 55 ; Mant. Ins. ii. 113, 63 ; 



JEnt. Syst. iii. 1, 429, 71. Hubn. Bomb. pi. 38, f. 168. Larv. 



Lep. iii. Bomb. ii. Vera, 0, a, f. 1, a— c. Oliv. Enc. Meth. v. 



50, 94. Esp. Schmett. iii. 88, pi. 16, f. 1—5. Borkh. Eur. 



Schmett. iii. 116, 30; Rhein. Mag. i. 365, 221. Fuessl. 



Schiveiz. Ins. 34, 644. Brahm, Ins. Kal. 285, 177. Schwarz, 



Raup. 78, 21 1. God. Lep. de France, iv. 1 14, pi. 1 1, f. 5. 

 Bombyx rimicola, Wien. Verz. 75, 1. Illig. N. Ausg. dess. i. 114, 



1 ; Mag. ii. 53. Hubn. Bomb. 142, 2. Fuessl. N. Mag. ii. 

 < 376. Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. 69, 568. 

 Lasiocampa rimicola, Schr. Faun. Boic. ii. 2, 154, 12. 

 Lasiocampa Catax, Meig. Syst. Beschr. Eur. Schmett. ii. 198, 4, pi. 



79, f. 6 ; Handb. 136, 80. 

 — , Roes, Ins. iii. 425, pi. 71, f. 1—3 ; iv. 239, pi. 34, 



f. a, b. Pap. dEur. v. 20, pi. 178, f. 229, a— e. 



