FAMILY THYATIRID/E 



"Feeble though the insect be, 

 Allah speaks through that to thee! 

 As within the moonbeam I, 

 God in glory sits on high, 

 Sits where countless planets roll, 

 And from thence controls the whole : 

 There with threads of thousand dyes 

 Life's bewildered web he plies, 

 And the hand which holds them all 

 Lets not e'en the feeblest fall." 



CEhlenschl^ger. Aladdin's Lamp. 



The family has been characterized as follows by Sir George 

 F. Hampson, in his work upon the moths of India: 



"A family of moths resembling the Noctuidce in appearance. 



Proboscis present. Antennae usually rather thickened and 

 flattened. Mid tibia with one pair of spurs, hind tibia with two 

 pairs. Fore wing with vein \a short and slight, not forming a 

 fork with \b ; \c absent; 5 from the center of the discocellulars; 

 veins 7 and 8 stalked; and 9 and 10 stalked, and almost or quite 

 anastomosing with veins 7 and 8 to form an areole. Hind wing 

 with two internal veins; vein 5 from the center of the discocellu- 

 lars, or generally from below the center; veins 6 and 7 given 

 off not far from the base; 8 bent down and quite or almost 

 touching 7 after the bifurcation. 



Larva noctuiform, with five pairs of prolegs." 



Genus HABROSYNE Hiibner 



(1) Habrosyne scripta Gosse, Plate XL, Fig. 22, $ . 



The moth is quite common locally in the northern States of 

 the Atlantic seaboard, and ranges westward to the central por- 

 tions of the Valley of the Mississippi. 



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