FAMILY PLATYPTERYGIDy^E 
“Above the wet and tangled swamp 
White vapors gathered thick and damp, 
And through their cloudy curtaining 
Flapped many a brown and dusky wing— 
Pinions that fan the moonless dun, 
ut fold them at the rising sun.” 
Whittier. 
The family has been described as follows by Sir George F. 
Hampson, “Moths of India,” Vol. I, p. 326: 
“Small or moderate-sized moths of somewhat slender build, 
generally with the apex of the fore wing falcate. 
Palpi slender and slightly scaled, often very minute. Fore 
wing with vein 1 b forked at the base; 1 c absent; 5 from close to 
the lower angle of cell. Hind wing with one or two internal 
veins; 1 a short when present; 5 from near lower angle of cell; 
the discocellulars angled; the origin of veins 6 and 7 before the 
angle of cell; 8 bent down and nearly or quite touching 7. 
Larva smooth, with the anal prolegs absent, except in the 
genus Euchera;* the anal somite usually with a long process, 
the others often humped. 
Cocoon spun among leaves.” 
Genus EUDEILINEA Packard 
The only species of the genus known in our 
fauna is the one named herminiata by Guenee. 
It is a rather rare little moth in collections, being 
probably overlooked by collectors on account of 
its insignificant size and its general resemblance to 
Fig. 194.—a:, commoner species. It is found in the Appalachian 
herminiata, A . 4 . , 
1 subregion. 
* Not American. 
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