4O2 ARTICULATES : INSECTS. 



rings. Before, and adjoining the eye-spots of the hind 

 wings, there is a large blue spot shading into black. It 

 appears in June. It is now referred to Telea. 



The Genus Saturnia - - Saturnians - - has the antenna? 

 widely feathered only in the males, and the larva has small 

 warts crowned with long prickles or branching spines, and 

 these prickles sting severely. 



The lo, 5. /<?, Sm. Abb., expands from two inches and 

 three fourths to three inches and a half, and the male is 

 deep yellow, the fore wings marked and spotted with pur- 

 plish-red, and the hind wings bordered next the body 

 and banded near the hind margin with the same color, 

 and within this band there is a curved black line ; middle 

 of the wing with a large, round, blue spot with a broad 

 black border and a central white mark ; fore wings of the 

 female purplish-brown mingled with gray, with a brown 

 spot surrounded by an irregular gray line. It is now re- 

 ferred to Hyperchiria. 



The Proserpina, 5. maia, Drury, expands from two 

 inches and a half to three inches, and the wings are thin, 

 black, and both pairs crossed by a broad yellow-white 

 band, near the middle of which, on each wing, there is a 

 kidney-shaped spot of black with a whitish crescent. 



The Genus Ceratocampa embraces moths which in the 

 caterpillar state are armed with horns, and which eat the 

 leaves of forest-trees, and enter the ground to undergo 

 their transformations. The species are of gigantic size. 



The Regal Walnut-Moth, C. rcgalis, Fabr., expands 

 from five to six inches, the fore wings olive-colored, with 

 several yellow spots, and veined with broad red lines ; 

 hind wings orange red, with two large irregular yellow 

 patches before, and a row of wedge-shaped, olive-colored 

 spots between the veins behind. The larva feeds upon 

 the walnut-tree, and attains four or five inches in length. 

 It is now referred to Cithcronia. It flies in July and 

 August. 



