FAMILY PLATYPTERYGID/E 



"Above the wet and tangled swamp 

 White vapors gathered thick and damp, 

 And through their cloudy curtaining 

 Flapped many a brown and dusky wing — 

 Pinions that fan the moonless dun, 

 ut fold them at the rising sun." 



Whittier. 



The family has been described as follows by Sir George F. 

 Hampson, " Moths of India," Vol. 1, p. 326: 



"Small or moderate-sized moths of somewhat slender build, 

 generally with the apex of the fore wing falcate. 



Palpi slender and slightly scaled, often very minute. Fore 

 wing with vein \b forked at the base; ic absent; 5 from close to 

 the lower angle of cell. Hind wing with one or two internal 

 veins; la short when present; 5 from near lower angle of cell; 

 the discocellulars angled; the origin of veins 6 and 7 before the 

 angle of cell; 8 bent down and nearly or quite touching 7. 



Larva smooth, with the anal prolegs absent, except in the 

 genus Eiichcra;* the anal somite usually with a long process, 

 the others often humped. 



Cocoon spun among leaves." 



Fig. 194.— iT. 

 hermitiiata, ^ . \. 



Genus EUDEILINEA Packard 



The only species of the genus known in our 

 flmna is the one named herminiata by Guenee. 

 It is a rather rare little moth in collections, being 

 probably overlooked by collectors on account of 

 its insignificant size and its general resemblance to 

 commoner species, it is found in the Appalachian 

 subregion. 



* Not American. 

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