THE MOTHS
are divided into the following groups
SPINNERS
Feeler feather-like or comb-like
body stout
heads sunk
Caterpillars
pupa:
forewing broad and large
the woolly chest part, mouth-feelers not a cocoon of silky threads around their
in
........
visible.
OWLETS
spin
Bombiridic,
Feeler hair-like and smooth, or sometimes a
little
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comb-like
narrow, generally marked with zigzag cross lines and two peculiar dots or eye marks body stout, head and mouth-feeler prominent. Caterpillars form mostly naked pupa; or with only a few hairs
forewing
which they bury
in the
SPANNERS OR LOOPERS
ground
in
walking
.
in
color
legs .
.
.
Feelers of both kinds
and hind wings mostly alike pillars have only fore and hind
fore
form a loop
.
Xoctttif,
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large,
body slender;
and character.
Their cater-
wings
and therefore span, measure or Phaliente, Geomefruta,
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