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HETEROCERA PEROPHORIDAE 



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of Lacosoma. The caterpillar of this moth spins a dwelling 

 for itself, and is remarkable from the bright colour of the 

 thoracic segments, the following somites being colourless ; the 

 head bears a pair of large processes, quite different from 

 those figured bv Harris. The moth itself is very Geometric!- 



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like in colour and form. This species is now assigned to Pero- 



FIG. 188. Larvae of Hammock-moth, Perophora sanguinolenta, projecting from 

 Hammocks, built from their o\vu excrement. South America. (After Jones.) 



/i/mrrt, but it seems to be very doubtful whether many of the 

 species placed in this genus really belong to it. The diversity 

 of habits and instincts evinced by these moths of exceptional 

 modes of life, but considered to be closely allied, is very interest- 

 ing. The most remarkable of all is the Hammock-moth, Pero- 

 phora sanguinolenta, of the centre of South America, the larva of 

 which constructs its portable habitations out of its own excre- 



