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MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 
Angerona crocataria is a yellow moth with light brown markings, 
and expands from an inch and a half to two inches. The larva feeds 
on the currant and strawberry and is yellowish or light green, with 
brown dots and markings. The perfect fly may be found among low 
bushes near cultivated fields during June, and, like many other moths 
of this class, it flies a good deal in the daytime. 
Breplios infans. 
Brephos infans is one of the first moths to appear in the spring 
and is a northern species, being found throughout New England and 
north into Labrador. It is a day flyer, and may be taken in the latter 
part of March or the early part of April before the snow has left the 
ground. It prefers low, bushy districts, where alders and willows 
abound, and in favorable localities may be seen in some abundance 
though generally shy. It is a pretty moth, about one and a quar¬ 
ter inches in expanse, the fore wings being brown with light gray 
markings, while the lower wings are red with brown margins. The 
caterpillar is unknown to me. 
Anisopteryx vernata. Anisopteryx autumnata. 
Anisopteryx vernata and Anisopteryx autumnata , the spring and 
fall canker-worm moths, have in the larval state long been a seri- 
