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Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



the caterpillar. It is very lucky for the people that 

 the army " worms " do not often visit us. 



The moth is an ordinary looking miller (Fig. 

 137) of a shabby yellow drab or russet color, small 

 white dots near the centre of the front wings and a 

 dusky bias stripe around the tips. It is not quite 

 an inch and three-quarters from tip to tip. The 

 fore-wings are freckled with black and crossed by a 



row of black dots a short distance from the hind 

 edge, one on each vein. 



This row of dots when it reaches the middle 

 of the wing curves forward, making a dusky stripe 

 to the tip, the wing being slightly paler and yellow- 

 ish along the side of the streak of dots. The milk- 

 white dot in the centre of the front wings is placed 

 upon the mid-vein, but all the markings are indis- 

 tinct. The hind-wings are a smoky brown with a 



