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AGLIA 10. 
PLATE XVI. Fig 3. 
Bombyx lo, Fair. — Fhal. Io, Abbot and Smith's Lepid. Georg., 
Yol. i. pi. 49. 
The genus Aglia was founded by Oehsenheimer on 
the Bomhyx Tau of authors, and is very closely 
related to Saturnia. It has the palpi distinct, rather 
short, clothed with scales, compressed, triarticulate, 
terminal joint short, ovate ; maxillae obsolete. An- 
tennae short ; those of the male bipectinated, each 
joint bearing a simple pectination, the latter dimi- 
nishing in length towards the apex of the antenna? ; 
those of the female with each joint unidentate, not 
pectinated ; head moderate ; thorax rather short 
and pilose ; abdomen moderate, pilose, tufted at 
the apex; wings entire, broad, horizontally ex- 
panded. * 
The finely coloured species figured is a native of 
America. Antenna?, head, and thorax yellow, the 
two latter hairy ; upper wings yellow in the male, 
with several waved transverse brown streaks ; red- 
dish-brown in the female, with three waved continu- 
Stephen’s Ulus, of Brit. Ent. Ilaus., vol. ii. p. 36. 
