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The Moths and Butterflies 



ready for the loom. In Italy and Japan nearly every country household has 

 its silk-rooms in which thousands of the white "worms" are carefully fed and 

 tended by the women and children, and from which comes enough raw silk 

 to furnish a good share of the annual income of each of these households. 



The reader who would undertake the collecting of moths and Initterflies, 

 or the rearing of caterpillars in home "crawleries," is referred for some 

 specific directions for this work to the appendix of this book, p. 635 et seq. 



The order Lepidoptera may be most conveniently divided into two prin- 

 cipal subgrouiis fsuhordcrs they are often called), namely, the Heterocera, 



Fig. 510-— Larva of obsolete-bandiil slrawbcrry Uaf-rolK-r, Cacoecui ohsnlctana. (Photo- 

 graph from life by Slingerland; natural. size in lower comer and twice natural size 

 above.) 



or moths, and the Rhopalocera, or butterflies. All butterflies have antennx 

 which are slender (filiform) for most of their length, but have the tip expanded 

 or thickened, forming an elongate .spindle-shaped dilation or "club"; the 

 moths have their antenna; variously formed, as wholly filifomi, i)ectinate, 



