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Notodonta anguina Sm.-Abb. [PI. i, fig. 12.] 



Aug. 3, 1828. Found the larva on the Podalyria tinctoria. Its position 

 when at rest like the gregarious caterpillars (Pi/r/ccra') of the apple tree, the 

 head and tail being elevated. Anal prolegs long, filiform; a dorsal, inter- 

 rupted, black line; two lateral and two abdominal, similar black lines. The 

 black spots represented in the figure are very smooth and shining. 



August 8, 1830. Found the larva on Lespedeza capitata. Aug. 9-10. *It 

 formed a cocoon of leaves and silk of thin loose texture. Aug. 13, be- 

 came pupa. June, 1831, imago. 



Sept. 1, 1849. Found on Robinia pseudacacia. It is blue white, above, 

 with tour yellow stripes, a slender, black, dorsal, subinterrupted line, three 

 similar, interrupted, black lines broken behind into spots on each side be- 

 tween the yellow stripes; beneath green, with a series of black lateral spots 

 (one to each segment) ; head and six true legs light brick red, anal prolegs 

 tipped with black, a black ocellate dot on top of the eleventh segment. 



Notodonta albifrons Sm.-Abb. 



On oak leaf, Oct. 7, 1848. Silvery white. Head round, ochre yellow. 

 Legs and last joint of prolegs, pale ochre yellow. Tubercle on eleventh 

 segment ochre yellow, polished. Two dorsal ochre yellow stripes, between 

 which are five slender, black lines, interrupted at the deep sutures, and by 

 the tubercles on the eleventh segment. A similar ochre yellow stripe on 

 each side, bearing the ^pinu-lcs, between which and the dorsal stripe are 

 three black lines, and below which and the legs, are vestiges of three or 

 lour black lines, widely interrupted at sutures, etc. Of these stripes, 

 only two are found on first segment. On the twelfth segment three 

 short, interrupted, dorsal, black lines, on each side of which is a black dot, 

 outside of which are the wide lines forming a V> an( l behind all these a 

 transverse row of black dots, seven in number i>o*f Body beneath 

 pale yellowish flesh color. When disturbed this caterpillar raises its head, 

 and shakes the forepart of the body from one side to the other. Raises 

 the tail rarely, and ordinarily only when perfectly still. 



One found in September made a cocoon in a roll of paper. Abbot's 

 figure is not correctly colored, the lower part of the body being too red, 

 and the tail being colored yellow, while it should be white like the rest 

 of body above. 



Found on fence near horse-chestnut, Sept. 3, 1849. Not seen with head 

 and tail elevated; smaller and shorter than anguina, but polished also. 

 Pale purple red above, light red beneath. Three dorsal, black, continuous 

 lines near together also; next to which, on the side of back, a pale red 

 stripe ; below the stripe three more black lines ; below this another light red 



