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LEPIDOPTERA. 
transformed to shining brown chrysalids. Early in July, 
and in the middle of the day, I have seen the moths flying 
about grape-yines and creepers, at which time, also, they 
pair and lay their eggs. A more full account of this insect, 
illustrated by flcmres, will be found in Hoyey’s Mao-azine, 
for June, 1844. 
III. MOTHS. (Phaiccnce.)* 
The third great section of the Lepidoptera, which Lin¬ 
naeus named Plialcena^ includes a yast number of insects, 
sometimes called millers, or night-butterflies, but more fre¬ 
quently moths. The latter term, thus applied, comprehends 
not only those domestic moths which, in the youno; or 
caterpillar state, deyour cloth, but all other insects belong¬ 
ing to the order Lepidoptera which cannot be arranged 
amono; the butterflies and hawk-moths. 
These insects yary greatly in size, color, and structure. 
Some of them, particularly those with gilded wings, are 
yery minute ; while the Atlas-moth of China (^Attacus 
Atlas')^ when its wings are expanded, coyers a space meas¬ 
uring nearly nine inches by fiye and a half; and the owl- 
moth (^Erehus Strix') has wings which, though not so broad, 
expand eleyen inches. Some female moths are destitute 
of winixs, or haye but yery small ones, wholly unfitted 
for flight; and there are species whose wings are longitu¬ 
dinally cleft into seyeral narrow rays, resembling feathers. 
The stalk of the antennae of moths generally tapers from 
the base to the end. These parts sometimes resemble 
simple or naked bristles, and sometimes they are plumed 
on each side of the stalk, like feathers. There is often a 
good deal of difference in the antennae, according to the 
sexj feathered or pectinated antennae being generally nar¬ 
rower in the females than in the males; and there are 
some moths the males of which haye feathered antennae. 
* See page 320. 
