1474 CATALOGUE OF 



Country unknown. 



North America ? 



10. Eriogastek hebes. 



Cervina ; alee anticce macula parva discali albida. Fcem. — Abdo- 

 men apice lanugine nigricante dense vestitum. 



Nearly allied to E. Everia. Fawn-colour. Fore wings with a 

 little discal whitish spot, much smaller and more dull than that of 

 E. Everia. Female. — Abdomen at the tip thickly clothed with 

 blackish woolly hairs. Length of the body 7 — 8 lines ; of the 

 wings 15 — 18 lines. 



a, b. ? Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



c, d. ? From Mr. Milne's collection. 



Genus 21. PCECILOCAMPA. 



Corpus robustum, pilosura. Palpi brevissimi, pilosissimi. 

 Pedes pilosissimi, vix robusti ; tibiae posticae calcaribus duobus api- 

 calibus minimis. Ala? subhyalinae, parce vestitae, vix latae ; anticae 

 apud costam rectae, apice rotundatae, margin e exteriore perobliquo, 

 Mas. — Antennae late pectinatae, thorace multo longiores. Abdomen 

 alas posticas vix superans. Fcem. — Antennae subpectinatae, thorace 

 paullo longiores. Abdomen alas posticas paullo superans, apice 

 lanuginosum. 



Poecilocarapa, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. 43. 

 Phalaena-Bombyx, p., Linn. ; Berk. ; Don. ; Stew. ; Turt. 

 Bombyx, p., Fabr. ; Oliv. ; Schr,; Illig.; Esp.; Borkh. ; Hubn. 



Haw.; God.; Boisd.; SfC 

 Diaphone, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 188. 

 Megalopyge ? Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 185. 

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

 Eriog aster, p., Samouelle. 



Body robust, pilose. Palpi very short and pilose. Legs very 

 pilose, hardly stout ; hind tibiae with two very minute apical spurs. 

 Wings slightly hyaline, thinly clothed, hardly broad. Fore wings 

 straight along the costa, slightly rounded at the tips, very oblique 

 along the exterior border; first and second inferior veins nearly 

 contiguous at the base; third moderately remote from the second ; 

 much more remote from the fourth. Male.— Antennae deeply pec- 

 tinated, much longer than the thorax. Abdomen hardly extending 



