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 . )erience this is a rare (jrastropacJia americaiia is a reddish-ljrown motli with a lighterband crossing the wings, edged Avith wavy dark brown lines andhaving the edges of the wings scalloped. There is a good deal ofdiscrepancy in size between the male and female, a good-sized sj)eci-men of the latter spreading two inches. The larva feeds on apple,birch, maple and asli. It is flattened beneath and frin
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 . )erience this is a rare (jrastropacJia americaiia is a reddish-ljrown motli with a lighterband crossing the wings, edged Avith wavy dark brown lines andhaving the edges of the wings scalloped. There is a good deal ofdiscrepancy in size between the male and female, a good-sized sj)eci-men of the latter spreading two inches. The larva feeds on apple,birch, maple and asli. It is flattened beneath and fringed with hairs BOMBYCIDS. 91 on tlie sides, like T. rdhda. It is gray above, with ii-regular wliilespots, and striped with sooty black, having two scarlet bands crossingthe forward part of the bod\-, on each of which are three black under side is orange. The caterpillar measures over two inches in length when fullygrown, and makes a gray-brown cocoon on the tree upon which itfeeds. The mcwth emerges in June qr early in July. To the genus Anisota belong several [)retty native insects. Theyare not large, the largest spreading less than three inches. Thesexes differ so much in coloring, size and shape as
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