HETEROCERA — PEROPHORIDAE 



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of Lacosoma. The caterpillar of this moth spins a dwelling 

 for itself, and is remarkable from the bright colour of the 

 thoracic segments, the following somites being colourless ; the 

 head bears a pair of large processes, quite different from 

 those figured liy Harris. The moth itself is very Geometrid- 

 like in colour and form. This species is now assigned to Pero- 



FiG. 188. — Larvae of Hammoclv-motli, Perophora sanguinolenta, projecting from tlieir 

 Hammocks, bTiilt from their own excrement. Soutli America. (After Joue.s. ) 



pliora, but it seems to be very doubtful whether many of the 

 species placed in this genus really belong to it. The diversity 

 of habits and instincts evinced by these moths of exceptional 

 modes of life, but considered to 1)6 closely allied, is very interest- 

 ing. The most remarkaV)le of all is the Hammock-moth, Pero- 

 2)hora sajigvAnolenta, of the centre of South America, the larva of 

 which constructs its portable habitations out of its own excre- 



