Platypterygidae 



Genus ORETA Walker 



(1) Oreta rosea Walker, Plate XLI, Fig. 24, ?. 



Syn. americana Herrich-Schaeffer ; formula Grote. 



The moth js a native of the eastern portions of our territory. 



(2) Oreta irrorata Packard, Plate XLI, Fig. 6, ? . 



The range of this species is coincident with that of the last. 



Genus DREPANA Schrank 

 (i) Drepana arcuata Walker, Plate XLI, Fig. 23, $. 



Syn. fabiila Grote. 



Form genicula Grote, Plate XLI, Fig. 22, $ . 



The species, which is dimorphic, inhabits the Appalachian 

 subregion. The form genicula occurs in the spring, the form 

 arcuata in the summer. 



Genus FALCARIA Haworth 



The genus is common to both hemispheres, 

 (i) Falcaria bilineata Packard, Plate XLI, Fig. 7, ?. 

 The insect, which is by no means common, is a native of the 

 eastern portion of our territory. 



TRANSFORMATION 



" Who that beholds the summer's glistering swarms, 

 Ten thousand thousand gaily gilded forms, 

 In volant dance of mix'd rotation play, 

 Bask in the beam, and beautify the day ; 

 Who 'd think these airy wantons,, so adorn, 

 Were late his vile antipathy and scorn, 

 Prone to the dust, or reptile thro' the mire, 

 And ever thence unlikely to aspire ? 

 Or who with transient view, beholding, loaths 

 Those crawling sects, whom vilest semblance cloaths ; 

 Who, with corruption, hold their kindred state, 

 As by contempt, or negligence of fate ; 

 Could think, that such, revers'd by wondrous doom, 

 Sublimer powers and brighter forms assume ; 

 From death their future happier life derive, 

 And tho' apparently entomb'd, revive; 

 Chang'd, thro' amazing transmigration rise, 

 And wing the regions of unwonted skies ; 

 So late depress'd, contemptible on earth, 

 Now elevate to heaven by second birth." 



HENRY BROOKE. Universal Beauty. 



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