FAMILY NOTODONTID/E 
‘‘The Beauty which old Greece or Rome 
Sung, painted, wrought, lies here at home; 
We need but eye and ear 
In all our daily walks to trace 
The outlines of incarnate grace, 
The hymns of gods to hear. ” 
Whittier. 
The Notodontidse have been characterized by Sir George F. 
Hampson as follows: “A family of moths superficially resembling 
the Noctuidse. Mid tibia with one pair of spurs; hind tibia with 
two pairs; tarsi short and hairy. Fore wing with vein i a form¬ 
ing a fork with i£at the base; i c absent; vein 5 from the middle 
of the discocellulars, or rarely from just below the upper angle of 
the cell. Hind wings with two internal veins; vein 5 from the 
centre of the discocellulars or rarely absent; 8 free from the base, 
curved, and running close along the subcostal nervure or joined 
to it by a bar. 
“Larva without the anal prolegs, and carrying the anal 
somites more or less erect; these often bear paired processes and 
are sometimes swollen; the other somites are often prominently 
humped. 
“Pupa naked.” 
An elaborate and very useful monograph dealing with the 
insects composing this family has been written by Professor A. 
S. Packard, and is published in the Memoirs of the National 
Academy of Science, Vol. VII, pp. 87-284. The student will do 
well to refer to this. 
Genus APATELODES Packard 
(1) Apatelodes torrefacta Abbot & Smith, Plate XL, Fig. 
20, $ . 
The insect is not uncommon in the Appalachian subregion. 
It ranges from Canada to the southern States and as far west as 
the Mississippi. 
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