. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies -- North America. Xylorictidae FAMILY XYLORICTID^ A small family which contains in our fauna two genera and nine species. The group may be represented by Stenoma schlaegeri Zeller, which is portrayed on Plate XLVIII, Fig. 41, by a male specimen. The insect is very common in the Appa- lachian subregion, and is particularly abundant in western Pennsylvania. FAMILY CECOPHORID/E "Entomology is a science, not a ;—Westwood. This is another comparatively small family of interesting
. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies -- North America. Xylorictidae FAMILY XYLORICTID^ A small family which contains in our fauna two genera and nine species. The group may be represented by Stenoma schlaegeri Zeller, which is portrayed on Plate XLVIII, Fig. 41, by a male specimen. The insect is very common in the Appa- lachian subregion, and is particularly abundant in western Pennsylvania. FAMILY CECOPHORID/E "Entomology is a science, not a ;—Westwood. This is another comparatively small family of interesting in- sects, numbering in our flmna about ninety species, which are distributed into thirteen genera. We can represent only a couple of them, for the purpose of showing the readers of " The Moth Book" what they are like. Genus DEPRESSARIA Haworth (1) Depressaria heracliana De Geer. (The Parsnip Web- worm.). Fig. 247.— D. heracliana. a, larva, side view; b, dorsal view; c, pu]ia; d, anal extremity of pupa; e, moth, enlarged ; y^ umbel of parsnip webbed together by the larvae, natural size. (After Riley.) Syn. heraclei Retzius; Ktubellana Fabricius; iimheUeUa Zetterstedt; pasti- nacella Duponchel; ontariella Bethune. The Parsnip Web-worm is an importation from Europe, 428. 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 Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932. Garden City, N. Y. , Doubleday, Page & Co.
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