104 LACOSOMID4E; PROMINENTS. 
FAMILY LACOSOMID-X. 
Opon our low bushes of oak we find not rarely another 
peculiar house made by a caterpillar. It is the home of 
Perophora Melsheimerii Harr. Formerly this insect was 
Fig. 102.—Perophora Melsheimerii Harr. Original. 
classed among the insects belonging to the above family. 
but for very good reasons it forms now a family by itself, 
the Lacosomide. The moth is shown in Fig. 102 and the 
caterpillar in large illustration Fig. 134. 
FAMILY NOTODONTIDZ OR PROMINENTS. 
This family includes moths of moderate size, only a few 
expanding more than two inches. Their body is stout, 
densely clothed with hair, of which those on the femora are 
unusully long. The strong wings are not very broad; the 
fore-wings have in many cases a tooth-like prominence on 
their inner margins. Many of the caterpillars have also 
peculiar humps, and thus become very prominent. They are 
either naked, or only thinly covered with hairs, and usually 
make slight cocoons or enter the ground for pupation. 
THE SPHINX-LIKE. APATELODES. 
( Apatelodes torrefacta A. & S.). 
This interesting moth is fairly common in Minnesota, 
but by no means sufficiently so to cause any great injury. 
Its caterpillar feeds upon blackberry, wild cherry, plum, 
