. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 462 :. brown, the cilia white at tips ; the underside whitish suffused with rufous, a discoidal spot and curved postmedial line with slight dark streaks at the veins. Ilah. Britain, Forres (Sahar/e), England, Leech Col).; France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Switzerland ; Spain, Catalonia; N. Italy ; IIussia ; Japan (Pryer), 1 $ . Kvp. 32-42 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. TG; Earrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 183, pi. 200. f. 2. Varying from deep green to pale brown with scattered black dot
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 462 :. brown, the cilia white at tips ; the underside whitish suffused with rufous, a discoidal spot and curved postmedial line with slight dark streaks at the veins. Ilah. Britain, Forres (Sahar/e), England, Leech Col).; France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Switzerland ; Spain, Catalonia; N. Italy ; IIussia ; Japan (Pryer), 1 $ . Kvp. 32-42 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. TG; Earrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 183, pi. 200. f. 2. Varying from deep green to pale brown with scattered black dots; dorsal lino Avhite; subdorsal line white, sometimes double, black-edged ; spiracular line white, edged below with orange or yellow ; head brownish. Food-plant, Finns sylvestris. 6-7. Genus CERAPTERYX. Type. Cerapteryx, Curt. Brit. Ent. v. p. 451 (1833) gmminis. Proboscis fully developed; palpi short, oblique, the 2nd joint fringed with hair in front; irons smooth ; antennse of male bipectinate, with moderate branches to apex ; head and thorax clothed with hair only and without distinct crests • abdomen with dorsal crest on basal segment and lateral tufts of hair. Fore wino' short, the apex truncate, the termen obliquely curved; veins 3 and 6 from near angle of cell; fi from upper anglo ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Head and tegula; reddish or olive-brown graminis. B. Head and tegula3 white albiceps. 1808. Cerapteryx graminis. Bombyx gi-aviinis, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 506 (1758); Esp. Schmett. pi. 68. f. 1: Schmett. ff. 480, 481 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 195, pi. 85. f. 4; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 1^4. Bomhyx tricvs^pis, Esp. Schmett. Eur. iii. p. 348. pi. 68. ff. 2, 3 (1788). Cerapteryx hiherninii^, Curt. Brit. Ent. v. pi. 451 (18.'33). Heliophohus albineura, Boisd. I
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