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BULLETIN 1469, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
satinlike luster. Hairs often dense at tip of abdomen, giving it a tufted 
appearance. Eyes black. Sbaft of antennae black, covered dorsally with 
flat, white scales. Antennas of males bipectinate ; of females, bidentate. Pec- 
tinations and dentations brown to black. Legs black, femora densely covered 
&* *=>> 
Fig. 2. — Map of the portion of New England in which infestations of the satin 
moth have heen found. The shading indicates the area known to be infested, 
which is also the area quarantined against this moth. The heavy dot near 
Massachusetts Bay denotes the location of the original colony, discovered in 1920 
with long white hairs. Tibiae and tarsi sparsely covered with white hairs, 
ringed with white overlapping scales, giving the appearance of alternate bands 
of black and white. 
