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The Moths and Butterflies 



dark lines; Anisopter\x has glossy brownish fore wings crossed by two 

 irregular whitish bands. 



Among the Geometrids are numerous species whose wings are green, 

 the shades varying, but usually with a strong admixture of whitish and also 



Fig. 570. Fic. 571. 



Fig. 570. — The pepper-and-salt currant-moth, Eubyia cognataria. (.\flcr Packard; 



natural size.) 

 Fig. S/I- — PA/^a//a rfrj^o/arja, the female wingless. (.After Lugger; natural size.) 



usually barred more or less distinctly with narrow or broader whitish lines. 

 Geomelra iridaria is such a species common in the East in which the green 

 is verv lii;ht in tone; Dyspepleris aborlivarui (Fig. 569) is bluish green and 



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Fig. 572. Fu;. 573- J'"'- ,=;74- 



FtG. 572. — The large blue-striped looper, Biston ypsilon. (.\fter Forbes; natural size.) 



Fig. 573. — ^The common Cymatophora, Cymatophora pampinarw. (Ailvr Lugger; 



natural size.) 



Fig. 574. — The plum-geometer, Eumacaria brunneraria. (.After Lugger; natural size.) 



has a grape-feeding larva. The raspberry geometer, Synchlora glaucaria, 

 has delicate pale-green wings with two transverse whitish lines; its larv-c 

 feed in the fruit and leaves of raspberries and blackberries and cover over 



the body with bits of vegetable matter like minute 

 pieces of flowers, etc., until it seems to be only a 

 tiny heap of ddbris. The snow-white Eugonia, 

 Ennonos stibsignarius, is pure white, expanding 

 an inch and a half; its larva; feed often de- 

 worm moth, Eupithecia in- structi\elv on the foliage of elms, lindens, and 



lerruptolasciala. (After , ' a , • it- ^\ ■ 



Lugger; natural size.) apple-trees. Angerona crocotana (Fig. 576) is 



a beautiful sul])hur - yellow Geometrid, ex- 

 panding ij inches, with a number of irregular ])inkish-brown blotches 

 on the wings; its yellowish-green larva.' feed on currants, gooseberries. 



Fic. 575. — The currant fruit- 



