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Body onisciform ; general color, gray. Head heart-shaped, strongly 

 bilobed, pale green, with white blotches, twelve short black hairs in front, 

 aud near the top of the head there are four small tubercles of a white 

 color, each of which is tipped with a black hair ; head surrounded with a 

 broken border of dark streaks. Upper surface greenish gray, with an 

 interrupted dorsal band of delicate blue gray spots, the whole minutely 

 spotted with black. On the second segment are twelve small white 

 hairs, four on fourth, fifth and sixth, six on seventh, four on eighth to 

 twelfth, six on thirteenth. Sides delicate blue gray, marbled with spots 

 of green and black, with a broken lateral band of a green color ; spiracles 

 yellowish white, with a black ring ; behind each is a large wart tipped with 

 a black hair. A fringe of short white fleshy filaments close to under 

 surface. Under surface pink, with a row of transverse black spots, larger 

 and darker on the middle segments. Feet and prolegs grayish white, 

 spotted with green and black. 



This larva was very sluggish during the day, but would fling itself 

 about in a frantic manner if touched ; at night it was very restless, creep- 

 ing about the box continually. It fed freely on Oak. 



Spun up in a leaf June 18th, 1874. Imago emerged latter end of 

 July, 1874, and proved to be Catocala ilia Cram. 



TINEINA FROM CANADA. 



BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KENTUCKY 

 (Continued from p. 147.) 



GELECHIA. 



G. albomaculcUa. N. sp. 



A single specimen with the palpi broken off. Head pale yellowish 

 tinged with fuscous. Thorax brown, with the apex whitish. Fore wings 

 gray brown, under the lens appearing yellowish white and brown in 

 irregular blotches, with a distinct white spot on the fold at about the basal 

 fourth, the usual opposite white costal and dorsal spots at the beginning 

 of the ciliae, a small white spot at the apex, and two others at the base of 

 the dorsal ciliae. Ciliae sordid white, with a narrow brown hinder mar- 

 ginal line about their middle. Legs and abdomen beneath irregularly 

 blotched with yellowish gray and dark brown. Al. ex. \\ inch. 



