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BOMBYX. (Maximi. Grisei. Ocellati.)

pone fasciam griseam dentatam : margo ipse posticus fu3-cescit. Inter strigam primam et secundam, macula quadratasubfenestrata, in qua oculus nictitans pupilla nigra lunulaalba iride grisea circulo nigro cincta, in quo circulo lunulaaltera alba major -versus basin alarum. Apex alae-purpu-rascit macula rubra alteraque nigra. Alee postica fulvo-ferrugineas griseo paulo nebulosae, oculo nictitante ut in an-ticis : fascia postici! grisea, margineque postico subinde pur-purascente. Femina discrepat a mare, magnitudine majore :Antennisque multoties minus pectinatis : Thorace fusco an-tice albo : Abdomine triplo majore fusco, incisuris marginealbidis, nec fulvis ut in mare.

Obs. This line species will sometimes remain two seasons inthe Puppa state.

B. M. (The T :u Emperor) Alis testaceis, ocello subviolaceo Tauus.pupilla hastata alba.

B. r lau . Faun. Suec. 1100 .— Attacus Tau . Linn. Syst. Nat.tom. 2.p.Bu.8 .— Gmel. Syst'. Fat. i.2406.— Turt. Syst. Nat.p. 138.—Fab. Ent. Syst. 3. 418.36.— Fab. Syst. Ent. 560.

15.— Fab. Mant. Ins. 2. no. 31.— Fab. Spec. Ins. 2. 172.27.

• —Villars Ent. 2. 118. 4.— Hiib. Scbmet. pi. 13. 51-2.— B.

Tau. Martyn’s Aurelian's Fade mecum, no. 8. article Birfh.

•—Mull. Zool. Dan. 134S,— Scop. Cam. 484.— Esper Scbmet.

3. t. 5.— Roes. Ins. t. 4. t. 7 .f. 3. 4.— B. Tan . Earns. Faun.

Germ. Mas et Fern. — Scbaf. Icon. 85. 4. 3• Mas. 6. Fern.

Habitat Larva in Betula, Salice capraea, Fago sylvatico,

Quercu. Villars.

Expansio alarum M. 2 unc. 10 lin. F. 3 unc. 3 lin.

Antennae maris valde pectinatae. Imago frequens in Sylvavulgo de Mion, mense Aprili, prope Lugdunum. 'Larvarara. Fi lers, 1. c.

Obs. The place of this fine species in Lepidoptera Britannica,rests solely on the authority of Martyn in his AurelianeFade mecum, published at Bath some years since. Hethere gives it as a British species, and says it feeds on theBirch. In the preface to his Catalogue we are assured thatmany‘dubious natives have been rejected, and those only in-serted which are really British.

I have never seen a British specimen of this species myself, inany collection, but have inserted the above account of it, lestI should be censured for omitting it, and with a view ofexciting further inquiries into the subject of its being an in-habitant of Britain or not.

•i—t- Inocellati.

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