. Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms;. Zoology; Birds; Reptiles; Fishes. ?*«» bj C. N. Mavrajtnf} CYPRESS-MOTHS The inside of the cocoons^ shriving the pup/g ISmj^rnj fore wings, and rounded hind wings. A species belonging to this family, with green foro wings and brown hind wings, may be shaken from every oak-tree in summer, and at the same time num- bersof its little green caterpillars will drop them- selves down, and remain swinging at the end of a thread, till they think that the danger is past, when they climb up again. The ( )THS, familiar
. Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms;. Zoology; Birds; Reptiles; Fishes. ?*«» bj C. N. Mavrajtnf} CYPRESS-MOTHS The inside of the cocoons^ shriving the pup/g ISmj^rnj fore wings, and rounded hind wings. A species belonging to this family, with green foro wings and brown hind wings, may be shaken from every oak-tree in summer, and at the same time num- bersof its little green caterpillars will drop them- selves down, and remain swinging at the end of a thread, till they think that the danger is past, when they climb up again. The ( )THS, familiar to every- body, are representatives of an enormous family of small moths, comprising nearl)' two-thirds of the British species, but only a few live in houses. Most have narrow wings with long fringes, and many feed in tortuous galleries which they eat in the substance of leaves. Some are among the smallest moths known. The White Plume-moth, which may be noticed floating about in weedy places like a piece of thistle-down, is a representative of a small family in which the fore wings are divided into three separate feathers, and the hind wings into two. The other species are brown, and smaller. When at rest, they look like small daddy-long-legs. The TWENTV-PLUME Moth is a yellowish-grey species, less than an inch in expanse, often to be seen at rest on windows or palings. It might easil}' be taken for a small looper- moth, but that each wing is split into six feathers. Silkworms We have now completed a rapid survey of the principal groups of Butterflies and Moths, and may fittingly conclude this part of our subject by giving a short account of the historyof Silkworms —insects which far surpass all other butterflies and moths in their importance to mankind, on account of the valuable product which is obtained from their cocoons. The industry has been carried on from time immemorial in China; and many old Chinese works contain in- teresting particulars, especially relating to t
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