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The Moths and Butterflies 
dark lines; Anisopteryx has glossy brownish fore wings crossed by two 
irregular whitish bands. 
Among the Geometrids are numerous species whose wings are green, 
the shades varying, but usually with a strong admixture of whitish and also 
Fig. 570. Fig. 571, 
Fig. 570. —The pepper-and-salt currant-moth, Eubyia cognataria. (After Packard; 
natural size.) 
Fig. 571.— Phigalia strigataria, the female wingless. (After Lugger; natural size.) 
usually barred more or less distinctly with narrow or broader whitish lines. 
Geometra iridaria is such a species common in the East in which the green 
is very light in tone; Dyspepteris abortivaria (Fig. 569) is bluish green and 
Fig. 572. Fig. 573. Fig. 574. 
Fig. 572.—The large blue-striped looper, Biston ypsilon. (After Forbes; natural size.) 
Fig. 573. —The common. Cymatophora, Cymatophora pampinaria. (After Lugger; 
natural size.) 
Fig. 574. —The plum-geometer, Eumacaria brunneraria. (After Lugger; natural size.) 
has a grape-feeding larva. The raspberry geometer, Synchlora glaucaria , 
has delicate pale-green wings with two transverse whitish lines; its larvae 
feed in the fruit and leaves of raspberries and blackberries and cover over 
the body with bits of vegetable matter like minute 
pieces of flowers, etc., until it seems to be only a 
tiny heap of debris. The snow-white Eugonia, 
Ennonos subsignarius, is pure white, expanding 
an inch and a half; its larvae feed often de¬ 
worm moth, Eupithecia m- structively on the foliage of elms, lindens, and 
terruptofasciata. (After . . , .. . 
Lugger; natural size.) apple-trees. Angerona crocotana (Fig. 576) is 
a beautiful sulphur - yellow Geometrid, ex¬ 
panding inches, with a number of irregular pinkish-brown blotches 
on the wings; its yellowish-green larvae feed on currants, gooseberries. 
Fig. 575. —The currant fruit- 
