The horns are more or less lyrate,and generally developed in both sexes; there are frequently brushes of hair on the knees.
Among other manufactures are brushes, boilers and the like, machinery, metal ware generally, the cases and other parts of watches.
The larvae are active and voracious little grub-like creatures (known in the United States as "wrigglers"), with large heads and jaws provided with a pair of brushes, which sweep food-particles into the mouth.
In this water the cocoons are kept stirring by small brushes rotated by mechanical means, and as the silk softens the brushes gradually rise out of the water, bringing entangled with them the loose floss, and thereby revealing the main filament of each cocoon.
It has a Protestant and a Roman Catholic church and manufactures of brushes, plush goods, cigars and margarine.