ORDER LEPIDOPTERA. 





Yu\ 188.— Vagabond Crambos, und; d,/, 



• wing of a lighter specimen— all natural sue; g, eg] 



iilv Phalaenidae tridce). — The geometrids, measuring- or 



span- worms, are at once known 

 by their looping gait, due to the 



nee of the two fronl pairs 

 .a' abdominal legs, bo thai in 

 walking thi body is arched up- 

 wards; \\ ben motionless they 

 resemble twigs and stems 

 the trees they inhabit, 

 moths bave slender bodies a 



broad « ings, with usually 

 pectinated antenme; the palpi 

 are short and slender, and the 

 tongue short and weak. When 



n in pupate, the caterpil- 

 lar! often Bpin an open loose 

 inc. >on, but where the insect 

 bybemates in the pupa state, as the canker-worm, it l>uri. 

 s, If in the ground; a few hang naked and suspended l>y the tail. 





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Fk> 188.— Spring canker-worm. <r, mate moth; '<. w itural 



si/- ; 'i. larva: i, side, il. top, of a segment. 



Tin' pupae arc rather smooth and Blender, cithor pale brown 



