SCALE WINGS. 19 



Next, the light Geometrina, 

 Truly butterflies of nighttime, 

 Are distiuguislied by their larvae, 

 Called Geometers or Loopers ; 

 But you know we cannot always 

 Find the larvae to examine, 

 Though we see the perfect insect. 

 Their antennae, always tapering, 

 Are not often very threadlike. 

 But are sometimes fringed or comblike. 

 Mark their very slender bodies ; 

 Mark their wings, so very ample ; 

 Mark especially the hind wings 

 When these pretty moths are resting 

 On a tree, or wall, or palings : 

 You will plainly see the hind wings 

 Often covered by the fore wings, 

 But not folded up beneath them. 

 And their colours much resemble 

 All the colours of the fore wings ; 

 And they run, when you disturb them, 

 With the wings all four erected. 



On the palings, on the tree trunks, 

 On the leaves in every hedgerow, 

 Settling everywhere, in summer. 

 Are the Bell Moths, Tortkicina, 

 Pretty Bell Moths, Tortricina ; 

 Their antennae very slender, 



