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Show . INSECTA· 204 . blackish-brown with rings of long and numerous h a•ir s. It 1S blue tubercles( 1 ). at.-Eyprepia, Ochs. ' . CALLI:MO:RPHA, L . but the antennre, at most, h wings are also tecuform,. re merely covered with Where t e h 'nferior palp1 a T d . the males; t e 1 . 1 .ci late 1~ and the proboscis IS ong. b Rres., Insect., Class II, small sea e:, bere· Bombyx Jacobere, Fa ., ies in France. Black; C. Jaco ' common spec . h . ~ p xlix. A very . ts of carmme; t em e· <- N oct. ap .. ' . th a line and two pom superior wmgs Wl • d with black. . . rl.O r ones, carm. ine m. ayrgelmloew , w.l th bl ac k antennreJ lt hves on The caterpillar lS the Groundsel(2). LxTHOSIA, Fab. . . 'zontally on the body(3). . Where the wings are laid horl that of the APosuRA( 4), IS re· The fourth section o f t h e N. octuer nae,n eral divisions o£ t hI' S f a~l'1 y, d as we have observed lD th g f the anal feet of the ammal move , • h absence o · by a um'q ue character, VlZ· t t er ior extrem'lt Y of the body termmates in its larva state. The pos e. f ked or even presents two 1o ~g, in a oint, which in several Is ores forming a sort of tail. With artic~lated, and movabl~ app~n~a;nd' antennre, these Insects are but t to their probosc1s, pa P ' . Some such as the respec f the precedmg ones. ' slightly removed rom G dart -Cerura, Sch r.-HarpuJ ia ' Ochs. · DxoRANOURA, 0 ' • • the of the Sericarire and Chelomce, , Have the external appearance. . le and curved thread. 1.he ·nate m a slmp d( ) antennre of the males terml d f the caterpillars is forke 5 • posterior extremity of the bo y o Some others, such as the ' . . see Lat., Ge ner. Crust. et Insect., IV, P· 220; Och· (1) For the other spec~es, d L~pid. de France. senhe.l mer an d Godart, Hist. Nat. es (2) See the same works. . 'b (3) Idem. h cter peculiar to the caterpi llars of th18 tn e, ( 4) Anus without feet, a c a~n to the Phala:nites. s •. which forms a lateral branch leadl ~b . nd Fischer, En tom. Imp. Rllll . (5) See Ochsen h el. mer, Godart ' Hu ner, a ' L LEPIDOPTEUA • 205 PLATYPTERIX, Lasp.-Drepana, Schr. Closely resemble the true Phalrenre. Their wings are broad, and the superior angle of the posterior extremity of the upper ones is salient or falcated. The body is slender. That of the caterpillars terminates in a simple and truncated point. They bend the edges of the leaves, on which they Jive and feed, and fix them in that position by means of silk. Their cocoon is very slight, and, in a word, these Lepidoptera are connected with the Dicranoura in their larvre state, and with the Phalrenites as perfect Insects( 1 ). Those which compose the fifth section of the nocturnal Lepidoptera, that of the N ooTUlELITEs, Lat., are similar to the preceding Insects in the figure and relative size of the wings, and in their position when at rest, but present the two following distinguishing characters: a horny, and most commonly long, spirally rolled proboscis; inferior palpi abruptly terminated by a very small or much more slender joint than the preceding one; the latter much wider, and strongly compressed. The body of the Nocturelites is more covered with scales than with a woolly down. Their antennre are usually simple. The back of the thorax is frequently tufted, and the abdomen forms an elongated cone; they fly with great rapidity. Some of them appear during- the day. Their caterpillars usually have sixteen feet; the others have two or four less, but the two posterior, or anals, are never absent, and in those which present but twelve, the anterior pair of the membranOl_. s ones are as large as the next. Most of these caterpillars enclose themselves in a cocoon to complete their metamorphosis. This section embraces the Nocture of Linnreus. All the generic sections made in modern times, the characters of which are rather taken from the Insect in its larva state than when perfect, belong to the two following subgenera. (1) The Pha!rena fa/cataria, Plt. /acertinaria, Fab., and his Bomby::c compreaaa. I at first intended to form a particular section with this subgenus, which would have been intermediate between the Pseudo-Bombyces and the Phala:nites. Och· senheimer places it at the end of the N octua:, to pnss from the Enclidia: to the preceding section; but the Platypterices appear to us more nearly allied in their caterpillar state to the Harpyia: of that naturalist, than to the Enclidia: and other Noctua:, whose caterpillars are pseudo-geometra:. .1 |
