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 shade.

They may be taken

in

the

woods

in

placing the wings in the form of a triangle

They

are found also in woods, resting

abundant

summer, upon leaves Tincida, though the smallest moths in

edged with delicate fringe. a variety of situations



June and

when

Delta moths, or Pyralida, so called from the habit of

July.

at rest, are slender-bodied,

upon the under side of leaves.

The

low bushes, and herbage.

The

of trees,

many

leaf-rollers, 'lortricidir, are

larvce live in

of the order, are very destructive to vegetation.

The clothes-moth and corn-moth rly in

having the antenna; always simple.

The wings

are representatives of the family.

the grass, always alighting head downward.

found very

rolled-up leaves.

The

are narrow and

They

are found in

These, with AlucitiC, a small family

with wings, divided into numerous branches, close the order.

The above The

is

reprinted with

some few changes from United States Agricultural Report

colors of the butterflies are indicated in the drawings

spaces yellow.



upright

lines, red



for 1868.

horizontal lines, blue



and

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