FAMILY LASIOCAMPID/E 



"Now busily convened upon the bud 

 That crowns the genial branch, they feast sublime, 

 And spread their muslin canopy around, 

 Pavilioned richer than the proudest kings." 



The Lasiocampidce have been characterized as follows by Sir 

 George F. Hampson, in "The Moths of India," Vol. I, p. 402: 



"Moths mostly of large size. Palpi porrect and generally 

 large. Proboscis absent; eyes small; antennae bipectinate in 

 both sexes; legs generally with minute terminal pairs of spurs to 

 mid and hind tibiae and rather hairy. Fore wing with vein \a 

 not forked with b ; \c rarely present; the cell medial in position; 

 veins 6 and 7 from the angle; veins 9 and 10 always stalked and 

 from before the angle. Hind wing with two internal veins; 6 

 and 7 arising very near the base; 8 curved and almost touching 

 7, or connected with it by a bar, thus forming a precostal cell; 

 accessory costal veinlets generally present. Frenulum absent. 



Larva with lateral downwardly-directed tufts of hair, and 

 often subdorsal tufts or dorsal humps on anterior somites thickly 

 clothed with hair. 



Cocoon closely woven of silk and hair." 



Seven genera belonging to the family are recognized as 

 occurring within our faunal limits. 



Genus GLOVERIA Packard 



(1) Gloveria arizonensis Packard, Plate XLI, Fig. 3, ?. 



Syn. dentata Henry Edwards. 



The moth is found in Arizona and northern Mexico. 



(2) Gloveria psidii Salle, Plate XLI, Fig. 2, $ . 



The habitat of the species is the same as that of the foregoing. 



(3) Gloveria howardi Dyar, Plate XLI, Fig. 1, ?. 



The specimen figured on the plate is one of several which are 

 contained in the collection of the United States National Museum, 



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