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 Family LIMACODIDAE 



This family contains small moths, with plump hairy bodies, head retracted, antennae of 

 males pictinated, tongue imperfectly developed. The wings are broad and short, thickly 

 scaled, of various shades of brown, often ornamented with green. 



The larvae are known as "' slug-caterpillars," the feet being mostly missing, and the 

 body is soft and flabby and flat below, while above it is usually ornamented with branching 

 spines. 



EUCLEA Hubn. 



E. delphinii Bd. Cowansville (Fy); East Bolton VII (\V); St. Hilaire VI (C); Montreal VI- 

 VII (W); Rosemere VII (W); food plants: oak, bass, cherry. 



ADONETA Clem. 



A. spinuloides H. S. St. Hilaire VII (W); Montreal VI-VII (W); food plants: cherry, plum, 



willow. 



PHOBETRON Hubn. 

 P. pithecium A. & S. St. Hilaire VII (W); Montreal VI (W); food plants: oak, plum. 



LIMACODES Latr. 



L. biguttata Pack. East Bolton VII (W); Montreal VI (W); Chateauguay VII (W); food 

 plant: oak. 



L. y-inversa Pack. Metis VII (W); St. Hilaire VII (C); St. Johns VII (C); Montreal VI-VII 

 (W); food plants :hickory, butternut, beech. 



LITHACODES Pack. 



L. ffasciola H. S. Cowansville (Fy); St. Hilaire VII (C); Montreal VI-VII (W); food plants: 

 apple, blueberry, bass, oak, hickory, plum, cherry. 



PACKARDIA G. & R. 



P. elegans Pack. St. Hilaire VII (W); St. Johns VII (C); food plants: birch, cherry. 



P. geminata Pack. Cowansville (Fy); East Bolton VII (W); St. Hilaire VII (C); St. Johns (C) 

 food plants: hickory, oak, cherry, birch. 



TORTRICIDIA Pack. 



T. flexuosa Grt. Levis (Fy); St. Hilaire V-VI (C); Montreal VI (W); food plants: oak, birch, 

 wild cherry, apple. 



T. testacea Pack. Montreal VI-VII (W); food plants: birch, cherry, oak. 



