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smaller on flic hack of the tenth and twelfth, and a pair smaller on the back 

 of the eleventh segment. The tenth, eleventh, and twelfth segments have 

 some dark arrow-head lines (not however quite meeting in a point) on the 

 back margined outwardly with ochreous ; sides wrinkled, especially in the 

 fore part of the body ; belly purplish-brown, with ochreous blotches on each 

 side, the claspers underneath being dark bluish-green, and the space between 

 each pair of claspers yellowish ; sometimes a lighter line down the middle of 

 the belly. It feeds on sallow, spinning up among leaves and moss when full 

 fed."— (Newman's British Moths, 90.) 



Mr. L. W. Goodell writes me that he found the larva on the hazel-nut 

 October 4, and that it measured, when fully grown, 0.90 inch in length, and 

 was of a light-gray color, variegated obscurely with darker gray and a few 

 black points. On the back of the eighth ring was a small hump; it became 

 a pupa October 6, after spinning a thin cocoon within a folded leaf. The 

 pupa is 0.40 inch long, is light brown, tinged with greenish on the thorax. 



In the female from South Carolina, the body and wings are of a dark 

 fawn-color, with the spots and hand much deeper in tone than in the males, 

 and beneath with a decided pink tinge. 



The distribution of this moth in the Old World is thus given by Staud- 

 inger: Central and Northern Europe (excluding the polar regions); Piedmont; 

 Bulgaria; Ural and Atlas Mountains ; and Amur. 



Of the other American species placed in this genus by M. Guene*e, N. 

 obfirmaria belongs to the Ennomince ; JY. duaria and iV. hamaria are species 

 of Endropia, as I observed by an examination of the type-specimen through 

 the kindness of M. Guende. 



Desideratum. 



Numeria frit Maria Guen. — "30 mm . Ailes supeYieures a- coude a peine 

 seuti ; inferieures arrondies ; les quatre d'un blanc-fumeux, asperge"es d'une 

 multitude stries d'un brun de hois, avec des traits terminaux noirs, et une 

 ombre mediane commune large, fondue, indecise et traversee par une seYie de 

 points noirs, suivis, aux supeYieures, de petites places blanches, dont une plus 

 large entre 2 et 3. Les memes ailes ont, en outre, les traces d'une ombre 

 extrabasilaire. Dessous a, pen pres semblable h celui de Capreolaria." 



I had thought this might be Cleora pulchraria, but it is evidently an 



Anagoga. 



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