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the imago, independent of metamorphoses, the genus Dryocampa 
Harris (Phalena pellucida Abbot and Smith), and still more stri- 
kingly Oiketicus Kirbii, seem to form the connecting links between 
the Hepialide and the remainder of the Bombycide. 
The sixth family BomBycipz *, corresponding with Latreille’s section 
Bombycites, and Stephens’s family Bombycidz, comprises some of the 
most gigantic species of the order, and is distinguished by the gener- 
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