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The Moths and Butterflies 



dark lines; Anisopteryx has glossy brownish fore wings crossed by two 

 irregular whitish bands. 



Among the Geometrids are numerous species whose wings are green, 

 the shades varying, but usually with a strong admixture of whitish and also 



FIG. 570. FIG. 571. 



FIG. 570. The pepper-and-salt currant-moth, Eubyia cognataria. (After Packard; 



natural size.) 

 FIG. 571. Phigalia strigataria, the female wingless. (After Lugger; natural size.) 



usually barred more or less distinctly with narrow or broader whitish lines. 

 Geometra iridaria is such a species common in the East in which the green 

 is very light in tone; Dyspepteris abortivaria (Fig. 569) is bluish green and 



FIG. 572. FIG. 573. FIG. 574. 



FIG. 572. The large blue-striped looper, Biston ypsilon. (After Forbes; natural size.) 



FIG. 573. The common Cymatophora, Cymatophora pampinaria. (After Lugger; 



natural size.) 



FIG. 574. The plum-geometer, Eumacaria brunneraria. (After Lugger; natural size.) 



has a grape-feeding larva. The raspberry geometer, Synchlora glaucaria, 

 has delicate pale-green wings with two transverse whitish lines; its larvae 

 feed in the fruit and leaves of raspberries and blackberries and cover over 



the body with bits of vegetable matter like minute 

 V )^O pieces of flowers, etc., until it seems to be only a 

 tiny heap of debris. The snow-white Eugonia, 

 Ennonos subsignarius, is pure white, expanding 

 p IG 575 xhe currant fruit- an inch and a half; its larva; feed often de- 

 worm moth, Eupithecia in- structively on the foliage of elms, lindens, and 

 L^ert^atural sizeO^ * apple-trees. Angerona crocotaria (Fig. 576) is 

 a beautiful sulphur - yellow Geometrid, ex- 

 panding i\ inches, with a number of irregular pinkish-brown blotches 

 on the wings; its yellowish-green larvae feed on currants, gooseberries, 



