THE MOTHS EMPEROR MOTHS 



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{Cydopides}. The grizzled skipper {Hesperia malvte} is a black or brown butterfly, 

 with white spots on the upper side, common in England in summer. The silver- 

 studded skipper {If. comma} is confined to some of the midland and southern coun- 

 ties of England, though abundant on the Continent. Figures of this butterfly will 

 be found in the illustration on p. 305 1 , and on the colored plate, No. 3 from the top 

 right corner. 



MOTHS SUBORDER Heterocera 



Since limitations of space will only admit mention of a few of the genera and 

 species of butterflies, we pass on to the moths, in which the antennae are of many 

 different forms, but never distinctly clubbed. Moths are vastly more numerous 

 both in genera and species than butterflies; and, as already observed, are for the 

 most part nocturnal insects. The other distinctive features having been already 

 mentioned, we proceed to the first family of the group. 



EMPEROR MOTHS Family 



The splendid moths included in this family are probably among the most 

 beautiful, as they certainly are among the largest, of all known L,epidoptera, 



HAWK MOTHS. 

 I. Eyed hawk moth and larva; 2. Humming bird hawk moth and larva. (Natural size.) 



ranging in size from the atlas moth (Attacus atlas}, which measures a foot at least 

 in expanse of wing, down to the English emperor moth, of two or at most three 

 inches in diameter. They do not, however, vary so very much in the comparative 



