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The Moths and Butterflies 



ready for the loom. In Italy and Japan nearly every country household has 

 its silk-rooms in which thousands of the white "worms" are carefully fed and 

 tended by the women and children, and from which conies enough raw silk 

 to furnish a good share of the annual income of each of these households. 



The reader who would undertake the collecting of moths and butterflies, 

 or the rearing of caterpillars in home " crawleries," is referred for some 

 specific directions for this work to the appendix of this book, p. 635 el seq. 



The order Lepidoptera may be most conveniently divided into two prin- 

 cipal subgroups (suborders they are often called), namely, the Heterocera, 



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FlG. 519. Larva of obsolete-banded strawberry' leaf-roller, Cacoecia obsoletana. (Photo- 

 graph from life by Slingerland; natural size in lower corner and twice natural size 

 above.) 



or moths, and the Rhopalocera, or butterflies. All butterflies have antennae 

 which are slender (filiform) for most of their length, but have the tip expanded 

 or thickened, forming an elongate spindle-shaped dilation or "club"; the 

 moths have their antennas variously formed, as wholly filiform, pectinate, 



