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ture is the fact that the third wart on thorax is rudimentary as in 
the Arctiidae. 1 In stage II the warts practically disappear, being 
obscured by small secondary hairs. 
This small family fits in much better here than with the Satur- 
nians, where I formerly placed it, following Comstock. The moth 
is generalized, the larva specialized as is the rule in this branch of 
the Bombycine phylum. The specialization of the larva is in an 
unusual direction for the group, i. e. tending to the loss of the hairs 
and the resumption of a smooth green skin. Therefore I jdace it 
as a side branch in the genealogical tree. (See p. 146.) 
Family Lemoniidae. 
I propose this term to accommodate the European and African 
genus Lemonia Hubn. (= Crateronyx Dup.) 2 The new family may 
be separated from the Eupterotidae by the absence of the frenu¬ 
lum. The venation is like the section of the family represented 
by Thaumetopoea rather than that of the great mass of species 
from India in which vein 10 (111.0 is absent. 
The larvae have numerous secondary hairs and reduced warts 
arranged as in the Eupterotidae on the abdomen. On the thorax 
the arrangement is like Apatelodes, but there is an additional wart 
below and behind the stigmatal wart which may correspond to 
tubercle iii, though it is probably secondary. As is the case with 
Apatelodes, these larvae would make good Lasiocampids, but the 
imaednal characters forbid the reference. 
O 
Lemonia dumi, Linn. 
Warts small, but distinguishable from the secondary tubercles by 
being slightly elevated and their setae coarser, i and ii nearly in 
line, iii above spiracle, iv and v nearly in line, v considerably the 
smaller, vi small and obscure. On the thorax the two warts are in 
line longitudinally and remote, the third intermediate, lateral; a 
small wart in the area, between the stigmatal (ivTv) and subven- 
tral warts (vi) posterior to, and considerably below the former. 
Hairs all short, not dense. 
1 For a figure of stage I of Bombyx see Grote Die Saturniiden, 189G, p. 0, fig. 4. 
2 I find that I have made a serious error in referring this genus to the Saturnina (Journ. 
N. Y. ent. soc., vol. 2, p. 121). The frenulum is absent, the cubitus three branched, the 
antennae simply bipectinated. Hence it fell at once into the Hemileucidae of Prof. J. B. 
Smith. I recognized the difference in the position of vein 5, but did not attribute to it 
its real importance. We proposed the name Lemoniinae in the text to call attention 
to the genus, but changed it in the appendix (Journ. N. Y. ent. soc., vol. 2, p. 172-174) 
after our attention had been called by a correspondent to the rule of priority. 
