PLATE IX.
CERATOCAMPA IMPERIALIS.
Plate [IX]. fig. 1. 2.
Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Nocturna. Family: Bombycidæ, Steph.
Genus. Ceratocampa, Harris, Append. to Hitchcock's Geology of Massachusets. Cerocampa, Kirby & Spence, Ind. Introd. to Ent. Odonestis, Germar. Stephens. Lasiocampa, Latr. Schrank. Bombyx, Fabr.
Ceratocampa Imperialis. Alis flavis, fusco irroratis et variegatis, omnibus infra maculâ discoidali subocellari fuscâ. (Expans. Alar. 4 unc. 9 lin. ♂.—6 unc. ♀.)
Syn. Phalæna (Attacus) Imperialis, Drury, App. v. 2.
Bombyx Imperialis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 435. No. 89. Gmel. Lin. S. N. 2417. 510.
Phalæna Imperatoria, Abbot and Smith, Ins. Georgia, tab. 55. Oliv. Enc. Méth. 5. 56. 116.