shade.
They may be taken
in
the
woods
in
placing the wings in the form of a triangle
They
are found also in woods, resting
abundant
summer, upon leaves Tincida, though the smallest moths in
edged with delicate fringe. a variety of situations
June and
when
Delta moths, or Pyralida, so called from the habit of
July.
at rest, are slender-bodied,
upon the under side of leaves.
The
low bushes, and herbage.
The
of trees,
many
leaf-rollers, 'lortricidir, are
larvce live in
of the order, are very destructive to vegetation.
The clothes-moth and corn-moth rly in
having the antenna; always simple.
The wings
are representatives of the family.
the grass, always alighting head downward.
found very
rolled-up leaves.
The
are narrow and
They
are found in
These, with AlucitiC, a small family
with wings, divided into numerous branches, close the order.
The above The
is
reprinted with
some few changes from United States Agricultural Report
colors of the butterflies are indicated in the drawings
spaces yellow.
upright
lines, red
for 1868.
horizontal lines, blue
and
dotteil
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