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AGLIA IO.
PLATE XVI. Fig. 3.
The genus Aglia was founded by Ochsenheimer on the Bombyx Tau of authors, and is very closely related to Saturnia. It has the palpi distinct, rather short, clothed with scales, compressed, triarticulate, terminal joint short, ovate; maxillæ obsolete. Antennæ short; those of the male bipectinated, each joint bearing a simple pectination, the latter diminishing in length towards the apex of the antennæ; those of the female with each joint unidentate, not pectinated; head moderate; thorax rather short and pilose, abdomen moderate, pilose, tufted at the apex; wings entire, broad, horizontally expanded.[1]
The finely coloured species figured is a native of America. Antennæ, head, and thorax yellow, the two latter hairy; upper wings yellow in the male, with several waved transverse brown streaks; reddish-brown in the female, with three waved continu-
- ↑ Stephen's Illus. of Brit. Ent. Haus., vol. ii. p. 36.
