Directions for collecting and preserving insects . FIG. 16.—A Moth, Ututheina bclla. COLLECTING AND PRESERVING INSECTS RILEY. atguishedbv their. FIG. 17.—A Clothes-moth (Tinea pellionella)— enlarged, a, adult; 6,larva; f, larva in case. A convenient system of classification for the Lepidoptera is based onthe structure of the antennae. By it we get two great sections: 1st, But-terflies (RHOPALOCE-RA); 2d, Moths (HET-EROCERA), which lat-ter may again be di-vided into Crepuscu-lar and XocturnalButterfliesonce distin-from mothsantennae be-straight, stiff andknobbed, and by beingday-flier
Directions for collecting and preserving insects . FIG. 16.—A Moth, Ututheina bclla. COLLECTING AND PRESERVING INSECTS RILEY. atguishedbv their. FIG. 17.—A Clothes-moth (Tinea pellionella)— enlarged, a, adult; 6,larva; f, larva in case. A convenient system of classification for the Lepidoptera is based onthe structure of the antennae. By it we get two great sections: 1st, But-terflies (RHOPALOCE-RA); 2d, Moths (HET-EROCERA), which lat-ter may again be di-vided into Crepuscu-lar and XocturnalButterfliesonce distin-from mothsantennae be-straight, stiff andknobbed, and by beingday-fliers or diurnal;while moths have the antennae tapering to a point, and are, for themost part, night-flyers or nocturnal. The crepuscular moths, composedmostly of the Sphinges or Hawk-moths, hover over flowers at eve, andconnect the two sections not only in habit, but in the character of theantennae, which first thicken toward the end, and then suddenly termi-nate in a point or hook. Order HEMIPTERA (it!u, half; ^repo*, wing), Bugs. The insects ofthis order are naturally separated into two great -sec-tions; 1st, Half-winged Bugs, orHETEROPTERA (zTs
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