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 THE MOTHS

are divided into the following groups

SPINNERS

Feeler feather-like or comb-like



body stout

heads sunk

Caterpillars

pupa:





forewing broad and large





the woolly chest part, mouth-feelers not a cocoon of silky threads around their

in

........

visible.

OWLETS



spin

Bombiridic,

Feeler hair-like and smooth, or sometimes a

little

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comb-like



narrow, generally marked with zigzag cross lines and two peculiar dots or eye marks body stout, head and mouth-feeler prominent. Caterpillars form mostly naked pupa; or with only a few hairs

forewing



which they bury

in the

SPANNERS OR LOOPERS



ground

in

walking

.

in

color

legs .

.

.

Feelers of both kinds

and hind wings mostly alike pillars have only fore and hind

fore

form a loop

.

Xoctttif,

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large,

body slender;

and character.

Their cater-



wings

and therefore span, measure or Phaliente, Geomefruta,

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