. First[-ninth] annual report on the noxious, beneficial and other insects, of the state of Missouri, made to the State board of agriculture, pursuant to an appropriation for this purpose from the Legislature of the state . hemonths of Octoberand November —when the still andhazy atmosphere,and the sombre brown of the craggy oaks, boded so eloquently thecoming of cold to rule the varied year—when the rustling leaf underthe horses tread, or the modulated echoes of the woodmans ax werethe only sounds of life, and animated nature seemed to have beenwooed to Lethean slumber—this crape-winged moth w
. First[-ninth] annual report on the noxious, beneficial and other insects, of the state of Missouri, made to the State board of agriculture, pursuant to an appropriation for this purpose from the Legislature of the state . hemonths of Octoberand November —when the still andhazy atmosphere,and the sombre brown of the craggy oaks, boded so eloquently thecoming of cold to rule the varied year—when the rustling leaf underthe horses tread, or the modulated echoes of the woodmans ax werethe only sounds of life, and animated nature seemed to have beenwooed to Lethean slumber—this crape-winged moth wcTuld often flut-ter by as though loth to follow in the general sleep. It is one of thefew moths which fly in mid-day, though in the breeding cage it showsa crepuscular habit, and is most active in the evening till dark, afterwhich it remains quiet. It is because it is seen flying in the fallwhen the deer run that it has been commonly dubbed Buck Mothor Deer Fly. The wings are so lightly covered with scales that theyare semi-transparent, and look like delicate black crape. The bandsacross them are cream-white, and broadest on the hind wings. Thesebands vary very much in width, and in nearly a hundred specimens. number of stiff, acute, rufous spiues, (strougest dorsally) about Jj as loug as the diameter of body, in-terspersed anteriorly, posteriorly and laterally Mith much longer bristles. Stigmata oval and brightyellow, (bhiek in alcoholic specimen). Head small, dark copal-colored, with a yellow triangle infront. Venter concolorous, the legless joints with four small verrucose warts. Thoracic legs same«olor as head; prolegs same as body, both furnished with stifl, yellow hairs. The tips of spines aremore or less black, as are the points on the warts from which they spring. After last molt the warts are paler, except on joint 4, where they remain dark red, the subdorsalpale spaces in front of the confluent warts beenme more cons])icuous, ami are sti-onglj relieved by tlie
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