FAMILY LASIOCAMPID/^ 
“Now busily convened upon the bud 
That crowns the genial branch, they feast sublime, 
And spread their muslin canopy around, 
Pavilioned richer than the proudest kings.” 
The Lasiocampidce have been characterized as follows by Sir 
George F. Hampson, in “The Moths of India,” Vol. I, p. 402: 
“Moths mostly of large size. Palpi porrect and generally 
large. Proboscis absent; eyes small; antennae bipectinate in 
both sexes; legs generally with minute terminal pairs of spurs to 
mid and hind tibiae and rather hairy. Fore wing with vein 1 a 
not forked with b; 1 c rarely present; the cell medial in position; 
veins 6 and 7 from the angle; veins 9 and 10 always stalked and 
from before the angle. Hind wing with two internal veins; 6 
and 7 arising very near the base; 8 curved and almost touching 
7, or connected with it by a bar, thus forming a precostal cell; 
accessory costal veinlets generally present. Frenulum absent. 
Larva with lateral downwardly-directed tufts of hair, and 
often subdorsal tufts or dorsal humps on anterior somites thickly 
clothed with hair. 
Cocoon closely woven of silk and hair.” 
Seven genera belonging to the family are recognized as 
occurring within our faunal limits. 
Genus GLOVERIA Packard 
(1) Gloveria arizonensis Packard, Plate XLI, Fig. 3, ?. 
Syn. dentata Henry Edwards. 
The moth is found in Arizona and northern Mexico. 
(2) Gloveria psidii Salle, Plate XLI, Fig. 2, &. 
The habitat of the species is the same as that of the foregoing. 
(3) Gloveria howardi Dyar, Plate XLI, Fig. 1, $. 
The specimen figured on the plate is one of several which are 
contained in the collection of the United States National Museum, 
