CHAPTER EIGHT 



UNDER-WING MILLERS. TIGER AND LEOPARD MILLERS. 

 YELLOW BEARS. HOBO CATERPILLARS 



UNDEE-WING MILLERS 



Often when one is walking through the woods 

 on the look-out for specimens, one may discover 

 some moths upon the trunks of the trees. \\Tien 

 the wings of these moths are folded, they are in 

 color and marking so similar to the bark upon which 

 they rest that they are easily passed by unnoticed. 

 But the moment they spread their wings, all con- 

 cealment is lost, for their imderskirt, so to speak, is 

 often a very brilliant and beautiful one. Hence 

 they are known as under-wing millers. 



In making a collection of these millers, one 

 should secure enough of them when possible to 

 enable one to preserve some specimens in their 

 natural 2:)osition of rest with folded wings on a 

 piece of the bark of a tree, and others with their 

 wings extended showing their beautiful underskirt. 

 Fig. 114 (Catocala relicta) is the gray-backed 

 under-wing. When the wings are folded it has 

 the appearance of a piece of gray bark, but when 



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