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WILLIAM T. M. FORBES 



SUPERFAMILY BOMBYCOIDEA 



(Lasiocampina) 



Heavy-bodied and Usually medium-sized moths (a few exotic forms 

 larger-bodied than most Satnrniidfe). Head relatively small, retracted; 



OSP 



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431\ 



FIGS. 425-431. BOMBYCOIDEA 



425, Apatelodes torrefacta (Eupterotidse), venation (The figures 1 and 2 indicate 

 accessory branches of Sc.) ; 426, Bombyx mori ( Bombycidae ) , venation; 427, Mala- 

 cosoma americana (Lasiocampidae) male, venation; 428, Ueterojxicha, rileycma 

 ( Lasiocampidaa ) , venation; 429, Epicnaptera americana, (Lasiocampidae), venation 

 of hind wing; 430, Bombyx mori ( Bombycidse ) , seta map of first-stage larva, 

 showing the characteristic arrangement of tufted setae; 431, Chondrostega (a primi- 

 tive, Old- World Lasiocampid), showing arrangement of warts 



