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72 BRITISH MOTHS 
brown or buff-grey, marbled with brown and black, the base varied with two dark waved stripes, followed by a 
pale one, then a broader brown bar followed by a very pale one, rounded behind with a waved line of brown, 
which is dilated at the fore and hind margins into a patch; the cilia is alternately brown and white ; the hind 
wings pale, with a darker bar across the middle. The ground colour of the fore wings is, however, liable to vary 
considerably, being occasionally much more suffused with brown than in our figure, One of these varieties was 
described by Mr. Haworth as distinct, and supposed by him to be the Bombyx querna of Fabricius. 
The caterpillar is pale green, with a grey dorsal line, and a lateral yellow line spotted with red, and a blue 
head. It feeds on the oak in September; the moth appears in May and June, and is rather rare in the woods 
round London. It is also found in other parts of the country. 
Bompyx Querna (Fabricius; Wiener Verzeichniss ; Wood, tab. 53, fig. 38; and our figures 16 and 17) ; 
is a distinct species, not hitherto detected in this country, although a variety of the preceding was considered by 
Mr. Haworth as identical with it ; it has the fore wings grey, with three waved black stripes margined with 
white, the basal one being very minute ; before the last of these stripes is a whitish lunulated mark. The hind 
wings are entirely whitish. The caterpillar is gibbous behind, green with four yellow longitudinal lines and 
black spiracles, It is found on the oak in August, and the moth appears in May and June. 

SPECIES 2—DRYMONIA CHAONIA. Ptare XIV., Fie. 13, 14. 
Synonymes.— Bombyx Chaonia, Wien. Verz.; Hiibner; Ochsen- | Bombyx Roboris, Fabricius ; Haworth ; Donovan, vol. ix., pl. 299; 
heimer (Notod. ch.) ; Godart; Boisduval; Curtis ; Hiibner, Verz. | Stephens (Chaonia Rob.) ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 6, fig. 34. 
bek. Schm. (Drymonia ch.). 
This species measures from 1+ to 12 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a pale ashy-grey 
colour, with two undulated transverse whitish bars edged with dusky, and a middle black lunule on a broad 
central whitish fascia; near the outer margin is a pale and almost obsolete curved streak ; the hind wings are 
grey-brown, with indistinct pale transverse bars, and a dusky lunule in the centre. 
The caterpillar is pale green, with dorsal and lateral yellow lines; it feeds on the oak, birch, and hazel, 
and is found in September, and the moth appears in May and June. It is a rather scarce species, but is 
occasionally found in the woods near London, as well as in Suffolk, Devonshire, and Worcestershire. 

GLUPHISIA*, Botspuvan. (Gen. & Inv. Meru.) 

M. Boisduval, in his recent work, separates the type of this genus from the rest of his Notodonte (including 

Drymonia), with the following characters—antenne of the male broadly pectinated ; palpi of the ordinary form ; 
wings short and rather broad; the anterior without the lobe on the hind margin; the caterpillars smooth, 
depressed, glabrous. Chrysalis inclosed in a slight cocoon amongst leaves. 

* From the Greek, in allusion to the crenated markings of the typical species. 
