As nature shows them; moths and butterflies of the United States, east of the Rocky mountainsWith over 400 photographic illustrations in the text and many transfers of species from life . their common name. Tlie cater2)illar isstriped with dark gray or dark brown on a greenish-yellow or gray-ish-yellow ground, and is an inch and a half long when fully pupa state is passed in the ground. A genus of Noctnidce having many American representatives,among which are some very beautiful species, is Phisia. The forewings rather pointed, usually of different shades of brown, are fre-quently or
As nature shows them; moths and butterflies of the United States, east of the Rocky mountainsWith over 400 photographic illustrations in the text and many transfers of species from life . their common name. Tlie cater2)illar isstriped with dark gray or dark brown on a greenish-yellow or gray-ish-yellow ground, and is an inch and a half long when fully pupa state is passed in the ground. A genus of Noctnidce having many American representatives,among which are some very beautiful species, is Phisia. The forewings rather pointed, usually of different shades of brown, are fre-quently ornamented with a silvery or golden comma-shaped spot (insome species several spots and patches), wliile the thorax and upperI)art of the abdomen is adorned with tufts of hair-like scales. Thelarvse, generally greenish in color, sometimes striped, are some ofthem injurious to garden vegetables, and spin their thin cocoons,through whicli the pup?e can be seen, among the leaves. NOCTUIDS. 73 These moths frequent flowers in the evening, one of their favor-ites being the phlox, upon the blossoms of which they alight. It isamusing to watch one of these moths standing almost upon its head. Pliisia simplex. as it thrusts its tongue into the flowers in its eagerness to procurethe sweets. Plusia simplex is a common and well-known insect, ex-panding an inch and a quarter or more. The fore wings are brown,in some specimens pinkish-brown, darker near the centre, wherethere is a silvery spot whose shape can be seen in the lower wings are dull ^-ellow and margined witli a broad band ofbrown. This insect is probabl} double-brooded, as I have takenit in June and again in September.
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