FAMILY NOTODONTID.^ 



FAMILY, notodon'tidve (" prominents " or tooth- backed larvsB). 



APATELODES TORREFACTA 



GENUS, APATEiiO'*>ES (*' deceptive resemblance to Apatela "). 



SPECIES, torbefac'ta (" scoTched " : perhaps the brown coloring of the moths). 



Virtue was rewarded. We had been weeding a little 

 in the old garden " over at the farm-house," and the 

 sister of One of Us, who was on her knees by an ob- 

 stinate weed, called : " Do you want this moth ! It 's 

 a beauty, and I 've never seen one like it." 



We rushed to inspect it, and on the root of a rough 

 old pear-tree was a beautiful moth which at the first 

 glance we took for a new smerinthid, though it was 

 smaller than any we had seen. The fore wings were 

 ash-gray, with deep brown near the outer margin and a 

 dark brown, velvety patch near the body, dark brown, 

 wavy cross-lines, and a white spot near the notched 

 apex. The hind wings were very red-brown, with a 

 little shade of gray near the base, two dark cross-lines, 

 and two white and dark brown bars near the inner 

 ends of these lines. The head, thorax, and abdomen 

 were ash-gray, the thorax having a rich, deep brown, 

 velvety patch, and the abdomen ending in a tuft with 

 a deep brown tip. The antennie were very slender, 



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