ORDER LEPIDOP'l 



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caterpillars gnaw ofj lb ilenl plants. The Ian 



uf A. pa tola are hairy, aud bo cloa rtain 



Nbtodontian caterpillars as t'> be easily mistaken for tbem. 



F:miil\ Eombyt. I this family differ in the usually 



thick, hairy body, small bead, pectinated antei 

 clypeus; In the weak palpi and often small, wrak tongue; while the 

 caterpillars are usually bairy, aud more or less tufted, <>r spiny. 

 The) Bpin a cocoon, more or less and the chrysalids are un- 



usually -.hurt and thick. The group is divided i n i < > a numb 

 sub-families, regarded bj some authors as families. 



The Lachru - I. ampimc) embrace the genera Clisiocampa, 

 Gastropacha, etc. The larva of Clisiocampa americana Han 

 called the American tent- caterpillar; its \\ < een in apple and 



cherry trees. 



The Ceratocampina are represented by .1 materia (Abbot- 



Smith), wiles,- spiny black-and- red-striped lairs strip oak-; also by 

 two very large moths, G'ilhei (Fabr.) and 



(Drury); the HemUeudni bj Hemileuca maia and J3 Fabr.; 



while the giants of the family belong to the Attaci, which embrace the 

 American silk-worm, the caterpillar of Ti A • 



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Flo. 191.— The Chinese silk-worm. '. 



