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are large, tuberculated, and spin rather thick cocoons among leaves. 

 Boarmia has wings crossed by numerous bands of dark h-regular 

 dots. The Macari(E have falcated primaries, and are of smaller 

 size than the foregoing groups. The allies of Abraxas have wings 

 rounded at the apex. A species that is pale buff with smoky spots, 

 inhabits the currant, whose larva is golden yellow with white and 

 dark spots. Some genera have wingless females ; such as Eybernia 

 which appears in October, and whose wingless female is ornamented 

 with a double row of square 

 black spots along the back ; 

 and the canker-worm (Anisopte- 

 ryx vernata Fig. 15, larva, Fig. 

 16, moth,) which is rarely found 

 now in Maine, but will probably 

 be abundant before many years. 



Acidalia is a very delicate slender bodied genus, of large extent, 

 whose wings are banded much as in the Boarmiee. The genus 

 Geometra which is large and green, we do not have here ; but some 

 smaller species belonging to the genus Racheospila, whose abdo- 

 mens m-Q scarlet spotted above are frequent. The smallest species 

 are found in the Eiqnthicice, which have long triangular wings. 

 Nearly all the species can be taken in June and in July, in damp 

 shady woods, or in open fields. Larentia and Cidaria come at 

 light with Noctuids in July and August. 



Pyralidce. (Delta moths.) The species have the habit of placing 

 the wings in the form of a triangle, when at rest, since they do not 

 overlap each other. Their bodies are slender, the antennae nearly 

 always simple, while the palpi are greatly enlarged, so as some- 

 times to be thrown back over the head. Hypena and its allies are 

 of large size ; the fore legs are frequently curiously tufted. They 

 are found in company with Geometrids. Hydrocamjja, as a larva 

 feeds on aquatic plants, constructing a case like the Phryganeids, 

 whieh it carries about with it. Pyrauda is generally red, st)'iped 

 with dark. Botys (Fig. 17,) is of a pale straw Fig. u. 



color with transparent spots, and long slender 

 body and legs. • 



Aglossa is found about houses, and feeds on 

 fatty substances. Some of the larvae are half- 

 loopers, while those of the smaller species are 

 naked, or with a few scattered hairs, slender and cylindrical. The 

 smaller species are nearly all taken in damp places, in meadows, 



