T HE LIPARIANS. 
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when at rest, is almost exactly like that of some of the 
Lithosians ; but the other kinds of Lophocampa do not 
cross the inner edges of the wings ; and the bodies of all 
of them are much thicker and more robust than those of 
the Lithosians. 
The third group or family of Bombyces may be called 
Liparians (Liparidas*). Of the moths bearing this name, 
the females have remarkably thick bodies, and are sometimes 
destitute of wings, while the males are generally slender, and 
have rather broad wings. Their feelers are very hairy, and 
for the most part are rather longer than those of the Arctians. 
Their tongues are very short, and invisible or concealed. 
Their antennae are short, and bent like a bow, and doubly 
feathered on the under side, the feathering of those of the 
males being very wide, and of the females mostly narrow. 
When at rest, these moths stretch out their hairy fore legs 
before their bodies, and keep their upper and lower wings 
together over their backs, sloping a very little at the sides, 
and covering the abdomen like a low or flattened roof. The 
females, even of those kinds that are provided with wings, 
are very sluggish and heavy in- their motions, and seldom 
go far from their cocoons ; the males frequently fly by day 
in search of their mates. The caterpillars of most of the 
Liparians are half naked, their thin hairs growing chiefly 
on the sides of their bodies ; the warts which furnish them 
being only six or eight f in number on each ring; and they 
have two little soft and reddish warts (one on the top of the 
ninth, and the other on the tenth ring), which can be drawn 
in and out at pleasure. Some of them have four or five 
short and thick tufts, cut off square at the ends, on the top 
of the back, two long and slender pencils of hairs extending 
forwards, like antennas, from the first ring, sometimes two 
* From Liparis , more properly Lipai'us , the name of a genu 9 of moths belong- 
ing to this group. This name means fat or gross, and was probably assigned to 
the genu 9 on account of the thickness of the bodies of some of these moths. 
t The Arctiaus have ten or more warts on each ring. 
