Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . slender. The larva? arecylindrical and covered with short, spinulated hairs. Some ofthem do not spin cocoons, so far as we know, the pupa of Cro-cota being found under stones with the dried larva skin stilladhering to the tip of the abdomen. Lfthosia argiUacea Pack,is slate-colored, writh yellow palpi and pro thorax. The base ofthe wings and the tip of the abdomen are yellowish. Lfthosia casta Sanborn (Fig. 214) is an undescribed species BOMBYCID
Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . slender. The larva? arecylindrical and covered with short, spinulated hairs. Some ofthem do not spin cocoons, so far as we know, the pupa of Cro-cota being found under stones with the dried larva skin stilladhering to the tip of the abdomen. Lfthosia argiUacea Pack,is slate-colored, writh yellow palpi and pro thorax. The base ofthe wings and the tip of the abdomen are yellowish. Lfthosia casta Sanborn (Fig. 214) is an undescribed species BOMBYCID/K. 285. of great beauty, discovered by Mr. Sanborn at Berlin Falls,N. H., August 10th, and also at Ausable Chasm, N. Y. It ispure milk white, with a slight slate-colored tinge on the hindwings, and is slate-colored beneath, especially on the forewings, and white on the inner edge of the hind wings. Justbehind the middle of the white abdomen are tufts of tawnyhairs, and the tip is white. It ex-pands one and a quarter inches. CramMdia has still narrowerwings. C. pallida Pack, is of anuniform drab color and would beeasily mistaken for a has broad wings like a Fi- -14- geometrid moth, with hyaline spots. The larva is hirsute andmakes a thin cocoon of interwoven hairs. N. mundana is aEuropean moth. It is represented in this country by Evplm-•jtcfma inendica Walk., which has broader wings and longerpalpi. The wings have two rows of smoky transparent has rather broader wings than Lithosia. //. 1n-cum Hiibner is deep scarlet, with three leaden stripes on thefore w
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