FAMILY NOTODONTID^E 



"The Beauty which old Greece or Rome 

 Sung, painted, wrought, lies here at home; 



We need but eye and ear 

 In all our daily walks to trace 

 The outlines of incarnate grace, 



The hymns of gods to hear. " 



Whittier. 



The Notodontidse have been characterized by Sir George F. 

 Hampson as follows: "A family of moths superficially resembling 

 the Noctuidae. Mid tibia with one pair of spurs; hind tibia with 

 two pairs; tarsi short and hairy. Fore wing with vein \a form- 

 ing a fork with iat the base; \c absent; vein 5 from the middle 

 of the discocellulars, or rarely from just below the upper angle of 

 the cell. Hind wings with two internal veins; vein 5 from the 

 centre of the discocellulars or rarely absent; 8 free from the base, 

 curved, and running close along the subcostal nervure or joined 

 to it by a bar. 



"Larva without the anal prolegs, and carrying the anal 

 somites more or less erect; these often bear paired processes and 

 are sometimes swollen; the other somites are often prominently 

 humped. 



"Pupa naked." 



An elaborate and very useful monograph dealing with the 

 insects composing this family has been written by Professor A. 

 S. Packard, and is published in the Memoirs of the National 

 Academy of Science, Vol. VII, pp. 87-284. The student will do 

 well to refer to this. 



Genus APATELODES Packard 

 (1) Apatelodes torrefacta Abbot & Smith, Plate XL, Fig. 



20, $ . 



The insect is not uncommon in the Appalachian subregion. 



It ranges from Canada to the southern States and as far west a* 



the Mississippi. 



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