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THE STUDY OF INSECTS . 
Family Megalopygid^e (Me-gal-o-pyg'i-dae). 
The Flannel-moths. 
Sometimes there is attracted to our evening lamp a 
whitish moth, whose wings, being densely clothed with long 
curly hairs, resemble bits of flannel; this is the Crinkled 
Flannel-moth, Megalopyge cris - 
pata (Me-gal-o-py'ge cris-pa'ta). 
It is cream-colored, with the fore 
wings marked with wavy lines of 
crinkled black and brownish hairs. 
The male is represented by Fig¬ 
ure 246; the female is larger, 
expanding one and three fifths 
inches. In the female the antennae are very narrowly pecti¬ 
nate. The larva is said to feed on oak, elm, apple, and rasp¬ 
berry. 
In the Southern States there occur three other species 
of this family. These 
moths are easily distin¬ 
guished by the structure 
of their wings (Fig. 247). 
There are three anal 
veins in both fore and 
hind wings; but in the 
fore wings the second 
and third anal veins (veins 
IX and XI) are partially 
grown together. The 
basal part of vein V is 
more or less distinctly 
preserved, and divides 
the discal cell into two 
nearly equal parts. Veins 
II and III of the hind 
wings are grown to¬ 
gether nearly to the end 
Fig, 246.— Megalopyge crispata. 
