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like a slanting roof. Perhaps the first things we notice are the antenna?, 

 mere threads about three-sixteenths of an inch long. Then it is seen that 

 the fore wings and hind wings are almost the same length and shape, 

 reminding us of the dragon-flies. Looking at the under side, we notice 

 the most important character of these moths, the manner in which the 

 wings of each side are fastened together to assure their acting simultane- 

 ously. From near the base of the inner margin of the fore wings there 

 projects a lobe, called the j'ugum, or yoke, which passes under the costa of 

 the hind wings. In all other moths, except one small family of very 

 minute species, the wings are connected by a bristle or bristles on the hind 

 wings, or a large angle, extending under the primaries. 



The legs of the males have very large tufts of hair, so the sexes can 

 be separated at a glance. The venation is very peculiar, the front and 

 hind wings being almost identical, while other moths have fewer veins in 

 the secondaries, and from this and other characteristics, as well as their 

 universal distribution, some entomologists are inclined to consider them a 

 very ancient type of the Lepidoptera. 



To look for the Silver-spotted Ghost-moth, // argenteo-maculatus, 

 instead of selecting a site where there is a growth of willows, we should 

 search for alder bushes. The moths have similar habits, but they fly two 

 or three weeks earlier in the season, and are found over a much larger 

 territory. 



Of these moths, the real treasure is the Golden Ghost, II. auratus, of 

 which only one example has been recorded from Canada, the Rev. Dr. 

 Fyles having been fortunate enough to take a specimen flying at dusk one 

 July evening in 1865, in Brome Co., Que. The fore wings are decorated 

 with pale brown markings and large patches of dull gold, on a duli lilac or 

 pinkish-fuscous ground colour. The expanse of wings is about two inches. 

 Nothing is known of its habits and life-history, and only a very few stray 

 specimens have been found, but it seems to have a preference for mountain 

 regions, as it has been taken in the Adirondacks, the Catskills, and the 

 White Mountains. 



A small species, now and then met with about Ottawa and through 

 the Province of Quebec, but quite common in New Brunswick, Maine and 

 New Hampshire, is called H. mustelinus. It expands only about an inch 

 and a half, and is of varying shades of warm browns and grayish-browns, 

 with darker brown bands and spots. The moths seem to frequent the pine 



