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leares rolled np or fastened togstfaer by silken tfireaca. "Elie pttpai scnic- 

 tnre la like that of the Sesiids 'fig-. i2if . The marking! of the fare- 

 wingi oscally sho-w one or more bands and sometimes metallic spots. 

 Tmeids. — The Tmeitie are an immense femil -a- of ^msl] moths 







Fig. 123. — " Leopard'' Moth ^Zeiizcrct pyrixa, I_). a. i. cj.terpillar ; .•. aiale; 

 d. female ; e. barrow of Lirva in wood. N^acnral aze. From Pike. Insect 

 Life, vol. 4 (L*.S. DepL Agr.). 



showing great rariation in stractnre. The wing-neuration is 

 nonnally like that of the TortriddaE. but the middle anal nerrure of 

 the hindwing is not forked at the base. The wings are osualiy very 



