FAMILY LIPARIDyt 
“The study of entomology is one of the most fascinating of pursuits. It 
takes its votaries into the treasure-houses of Nature, and explains some of the 
wonderful series of links which form the great chain of creation. It lays open 
before us another world, of which we have been hitherto unconscious, and shows 
us that the tiniest insect, so small perhaps that the unaided eye can scarcely see it, 
has its work to do in the world, and does it.” — Rev. J. G. Wood. 
The following characterization of the family is adapted from 
the pages of Sir George F. Hampson’s “Moths of India,” Vol. I, 
p. 432: 
‘ A family of moths generally of nocturnal flight, though 
some genera, as Aroa of the Eastern Hemisphere and Hemero- 
campa , are more or less diurnal in their habits. The perfect 
insects are mostly clothed with long hair-like scales upon the 
body. The males have the antennae highly pectinated, the 
branches often having long terminal spines, and spines to retain 
them in position. The females often have a largely developed 
anal tuft of hair for covering the eggs. The proboscis is absent. 
The legs are hairy. The frenulum is present, except in the genus 
Ratarda , which does not occur in America. The fore wing with 
vein 1 a not anastomosing with 1 b ; \c absent except in Ratarda ; 
5 from close to lower angle of cell. Hind wing with two internal 
veins; 5 from close to lower angle of cell, except in the eastern 
genera Ga^alina and Porthesia , 8 nearly touching 7 at middle of 
cell and connected with it by a bar. 
Larva hairy; generally clothed with very thick hair or with 
thick tufts of hair, and forming a cocoon into which these hairs 
are woven, they being often of a very poisonous nature/ 
Genus GYNiEPHORA Hiibner 
(1) Gynaephora rossi Curtis, Plate XXXVIII, Fig. 10, 6 , 
Fig. 11, $ . 
The genus is arctic, and the species is found in the arctic 
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