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The Moths and Butterflies 



its pinkish-red hind wings with black branching border and yellowish-red 

 fore wings crossed by six bending white bands containing small black spots. 

 Attractive and familiar moths are the various species of Halesidota, whose 

 larvae feed on the leaves of hickory, oak, and several kinds of orchard trees. 

 These caterpillars (Fig. 593) are covered with short spreading tufts of hairs 

 white and black or yellow, and bear, too, a single pair of long hair pencils 

 usually black or orange. They are often called tussock-caterpillars and 

 are not unlike the true tussock-moth larvae (see p. 404). The moths 



(Fig. 594) have long narrow fore 

 wings, and hind wings only about 

 half as long; in H. tessellata the 

 hind wings are almost transparent 

 yellowish (while the fore wings have 

 faint darker short transverse lines 

 or blotches) ; H . maculata (Fig. 595) 

 has yellowish fore wings thickly 



FIG. 594. FIG. 595. 



FIG. 594. HalisidotacarycE, above, and H. tesselata, below. (After Lugger; natural size.) 

 FIG. 595. Halisidota maculata. (After Lugger; natural size.) 



sprinkled with brown and blotched with creamy-white spots, the pale hind 

 wings being unmarked; H. lobecula has the wings nearly transparent, the fore 

 wings dusted with dark scales, and a regular check pattern on the front and 

 hind margins, the hind wings unmarked, and the abdomen of a beautiful 

 rose color; H. argentata has the fore wings blackish brown with distinct 

 white spots all over the surface, white hind wings bearing a single irregular 

 brown spot near the apex. The Callimorphas (Fig. 596) are pretty, slender- 

 bodied Arctians with snow-white, creamy, or soft warm yellow-brown wings, 

 banded with dark brown or blackish; they belong to the genus Haploa, 

 whose larvae are blackish studded with blue spots, and covered with short 

 stiff hairs. All the species of Haploa are found in the Atlantic states. H. 

 clymene (PI. VII, F'g. 5) has the wings brownish yellow, paler on the fore wings, 

 which are incompletely bordered with blackish brown, a curious blunt arm 

 of this color projecting in from the hinder margin; the hind wings have a 

 subcircular dark spot; H. lecontei has white hind wings, and brown fore 



