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dark lines; Anisopteryx has glossy brownish fore wings crossed by two 

 irregular whitish bands. 



Among the Geometrids are numerous species whose wings are green, 

 the shades varying, but usually with a strong admixture of whitish and also 



FIG. 570. FIG. 571. 



FlG. 570. The pepper-and-salt currant-moth, Eubyia cognataria. (After Packard; 



natural size.) 

 FIG. 571. Phigalia strigataria, the female wingless. (After Lugger; natural size.) 



usually barred more or less distinctly with narrow or broader whitish lines. 

 Geometra iridaria is such a species common in the East in which the green 

 is very light in tone; Dyspepteris abortivaria (Fig. 569) is bluish green and 



FIG. 572. FIG. 573. FIG. 574. 



FIG. 572. The large blue-striped looper, Biston ypsilon. (After Forbes; natural size.) 



FIG. 573. The common Cymatophora, Cymatophora pampinaria. (After Lugger; 



natural size.) 



FlG. 574. The plum-geometer, Eumacaria brunneraria. (After Lugger; natural size.) 



has a grape-feeding larva. The raspberry geometer, Synchlora glaucaria, 

 has delicate pale-green wings with two transverse whitish lines; its larvae 

 feed in the fruit and leaves of raspberries and blackberries and cover over 



the body with bits of vegetable matter like minute 

 pieces of flowers, etc., until it seems to be only a 

 tiny heap of debris. The snow-white Eugonia, 

 Ennonos subsignarius, is pure white, expanding 

 The currant fruit- an inch and a half; its larvae feed often de- 



worm moth, Eupithecia in- structively on the foliage of elms, lindens, and 

 terruptofasciata. (After . ' ' . 



Lugger; natural size.) apple-trees. Angerona crocotana (Fig. 576) is 



a beautiful sulphur - yellow Geometrid, ex- 



panding ij inches, with a number of irregular pinkish-brown blotches 

 on the wings; its yellowish-green larvae feed on currants, gooseberries, 



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