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Classification of Insects: Lepidoptera. 



The first of these has, by later naturalists, been merged with others, 

 but, with this exception, these groups have been considered as well 

 marked, and are generally retained. We present a few examples 

 of some of these forms. 



695. The Bomby- 

 ces, or spinners, are 

 thick- bodied moths, 

 with feathered an- 

 tenna?, at least in the 

 males, tongue short 



(Male) (Female.} or wanting, thorax 



102. Bombyx neustria. (Perfect Insect.) 



woolly but not crest- 

 ed, and the Iarva3 

 generally spinners. 

 The figures here giv- 

 en show one of nu- 

 merous species of 

 this group. They 

 have sometimes 

 proved exceedingly 

 destructive, by eat- 

 ing off the leaves of 

 trees, while in the 

 larva state. We 

 here present a view 

 of the perfect insect, 

 the larva? of which 

 prove very destruc- 

 tive to the Scotch 

 pine. Whole forests 



103. Larva of the Bombyx neustria. 



104. Bombyx of the Pine. (Female.) 



105. Larva of the Bombyx pini. 



