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LEPIDOPTERA. 



carrying a kerosene lamp into the woods and watching for 

 TS'hatever is attracted b}' its light. 



Thyatira and Cymatopliora are allied by their small, hairy 

 heads, to the Notodontie in the preceding family. In Thyra- 



___ -^.^ tira the palpi are long and depressed, and the 



\^^^ ^ J fore wings are dark, with five or six large light 

 \v3^ spots, and the larva is like that of the Noto- 

 Fig. 333. dontiie, the segments being humped, and the 

 anal legs raised Avhile at rest, while Cymatophora is pale ashen, 

 the fore wings being crossed b}^ four or five waved lines. The 

 larva is smooth, rather flattened beneath, with a large head. 

 It feeds on trees, between two leaves united by silk. C. cani- 

 plaga Walker describes from Canada. Gramatop>hora trisig- 

 nata Doubleday (Fig. 233, fore wing) is a gaily colored spe- 

 cies, greenish, marbled with 

 black, with three large, round, 

 brown spots on the fore wings. 

 The larva (Fig. 234) is 

 humped, giving it a zig-zag 

 outline, and is brown with the 

 third to the sixth abdominal rig. 2;u. 



rings much paler. It has the unusual power of boring very 

 smooth, cylindrical holes in solid pine wood. We have re- 

 ceived specimens of its tunnels from Mrs. J. Brigham. We 

 have found the larvte just moulting on the leaves of the lilac. 

 September 12th. 



In Acronycta the head becomes large and broad, tlie fore 

 wings are broad and short, with dark streaks and a daik mark. 



like the Greek letter Psi on the 

 -^>- inner margin. The larva? Aary 

 ^^T>^ in being humped or cylindrical, 

 Fis- 2^3- downy, slightly hairy, or very 



hairy, and feed exposed on shrubs. The pupa lies in a co- 

 coon made in moss or in crevices of bark. A. oblinita Smith 

 (Fig. 235, larva) is whitish gray, with darker streaks on the 

 fore wings. 



Apatela Americana Harris is a large, pale gray moth, without 

 black streaks, Avhose woollv, yellowish caterpillar, with long, 

 slender pencils of blaciv hairs, feeds on the maple. 



