. A manual for the study of insects. Insects. Family Megalopygid^e (Me-gal-o-pyg'i-dae). TJie Flannel-mot J IS, Sometimes there is attracted to our evening lamp a whitish moth, whose wings, being densely clothed with long curly hairs, resemble bits of flannel; this is the Crinkled Flannel-moth, Megalopyge cris- pata (Me-gal-o-py'ge cris-pa'ta). It is cream-colored, with the fore wings marked with wavy lines of crinkled black and brownish hairs. The male is represented by Fig- ure 246; the female is larger, Fig. lifi.—Megalopygecrispata. expanding One and three fifths inches. In the female the
. A manual for the study of insects. Insects. Family Megalopygid^e (Me-gal-o-pyg'i-dae). TJie Flannel-mot J IS, Sometimes there is attracted to our evening lamp a whitish moth, whose wings, being densely clothed with long curly hairs, resemble bits of flannel; this is the Crinkled Flannel-moth, Megalopyge cris- pata (Me-gal-o-py'ge cris-pa'ta). It is cream-colored, with the fore wings marked with wavy lines of crinkled black and brownish hairs. The male is represented by Fig- ure 246; the female is larger, Fig. lifi.—Megalopygecrispata. expanding One and three fifths inches. In the female the antennae are very narrowly pecti- nate. The larva is said to feed on oak, elm, apple, and rasp- berry. In the Southern States there occur three other species of this family. These moths are easily distin- guished by the structure of their wings (Fig. 247). There are three anal veins in both fore and hind wings ; but in the fore wings the second and third anal veins (veins IX and XI) are partially nil grown together. The basal part of vein V is more or less distinctly preserved, and divides the discal cell into two nearly equal parts. Veins II and III of the hind wings are grown to- gether nearly to the end of the discal IX vni Fig. 247.—Wing's of Megalopyge 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 Comstock, John Henry, 1849-1931; Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930. joint author. Ithaca, N. Y. , Comstock Pub. Co.
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