FAMILY THYAT 1 RIDAE 
“Feeble though the insect be, 
Allah speaks through that to thee! 
As within the moonbeam I, 
God in glory sits on high, 
Sits where countless planets roll, 
And from thence controls the whole: 
There with threads of thousand dyes 
Life’s bewildered web he plies. 
And the hand which holds them all 
Lets not e’en the feeblest fall.” 
CEhlenschl^ger.— Aladdin’s Lamp. 
The family has been characterized as follows by Sir George 
F. Hampson, in his work upon the moths of India: 
“A family of moths resembling the Noctnidce in appearance. 
Proboscis present. Antennae usually rather thickened and 
flattened. Mid tibia with one pair of spurs, hind tibia with two 
pairs. Fore wing with vein i a short and slight, not forming a 
fork with i b; ic absent; 5 from the center of the discocellulars; 
veins 7 and 8 stalked; and 9 and 10 stalked, and almost or quite 
anastomosing with veins 7 and 8 to form an areole. Hind wing 
with two internal veins; vein 5 from the center of the discocellu¬ 
lars, or generally from below the center; veins 6 and 7 given 
off not far from the base; 8 bent down and quite or almost 
touching 7 after the bifurcation. 
Larva noctuiform, with five pairs of prolegs. ” 
Genus HABROSYNE Hubner 
(1) Habrosyne scripta Gosse, Plate XL, Fig. 22, $ . 
The moth is quite common locally in the northern States of 
the Atlantic seaboard, and ranges westward to the central por¬ 
tions of the Valley of the Mississippi. 
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