. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. ."â A THE rUSS-MOTH. 535 crcatui'G is small, and the house of no great wei jx'culiar ungainliness of his spouse, he is rather fortunate than otherwise in the fate \\hieh forbids him to contemplate the charms that lie hidden behind the dense curtain tliat shrouds the nuptial couch, and which, but for the mystery that surrounds them, luiuht inspire any feeling rather than that of aflection. The grub-like female is seen lying on the ground, just bel
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. ."â A THE rUSS-MOTH. 535 crcatui'G is small, and the house of no great wei jx'culiar ungainliness of his spouse, he is rather fortunate than otherwise in the fate \\hieh forbids him to contemplate the charms that lie hidden behind the dense curtain tliat shrouds the nuptial couch, and which, but for the mystery that surrounds them, luiuht inspire any feeling rather than that of aflection. The grub-like female is seen lying on the ground, just below the flying figure of the male insect. It will be noticed that, except for the feathered body, the creature looks more like a larva than a perfect insect. Owing to the resemblance which these remark- able insects bear to the fasces which were borne by the lictors before Iioman consuls, one species lias been termed the Lictor-moth. Tlie yinghalese appropriately call them by a name that signifies billets of firewood, and believe that the insects were once human lii'iiigs who stole firewood while on earth, and are forced to undergo an apjn-opriate in the insect state. About five species of House-builder Moths are known. Tlie LouSTER-MOTii derives its name from the grotesque exterior of the caterpillar. As may be seen b 'renco to the illustration, this larva is one of the oddest imaginable forms, har>'V tO l»e taken for a cater])illar by one who was not acrprainted with it. Tiie a])parently forced and strange attitude in which this caterpillar is represented is that which it assumes when at rest. The second and third pair of legs are much elongated. The moth itself displays no very iiotable points of structure except the raised tufts on the disc t)f the fore wings. The secontl example of this family behjngs to the typical genus of the first sub-family, and is one of the I'rominent-moths, so called on accoruit of he prominent tufts on the inner margin of the uj
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