. Natural history of animals. Containing brief descriptions of the animals figured on Tenney's Natural history tablets, but complete without the tablets. Zoology. 148 ARTICULATES: INSECTS. SILK-WOKM MOTHS. \, These moths have the head small, antennae generally feathered or toothed, tongue short, thorax woolly, and the fore legs hairy. Most of the caterpillars spin co- coons. Some of these moths are small, and others are the largest of the Lepidopters. Oae of the most elegant kinds is the Beautiful Dei- opeia. Its fore wings are yellow, crossed by white. Fig. 276. — Beautiful Deiopeia. bands, o
. Natural history of animals. Containing brief descriptions of the animals figured on Tenney's Natural history tablets, but complete without the tablets. Zoology. 148 ARTICULATES: INSECTS. SILK-WOKM MOTHS. \, These moths have the head small, antennae generally feathered or toothed, tongue short, thorax woolly, and the fore legs hairy. Most of the caterpillars spin co- coons. Some of these moths are small, and others are the largest of the Lepidopters. Oae of the most elegant kinds is the Beautiful Dei- opeia. Its fore wings are yellow, crossed by white. Fig. 276. — Beautiful Deiopeia. bands, on each of which is a row of black dots, and the hind wings are scarlet with an irregular black border. The Salt-marsh Moth expands about two inches; the fore wings are white, hind wings and hind body yellow,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tenney, Sanborn, 1827-1877; Tenney, Abby Amy (Gove) 1836-. New York, Scribner, Armstrong
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