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chargeable with vanity than is a peacock. I have, however, never seen 

 it strut about on a leaf, and after having bred a great many specimens, I 

 do not believe that it can walk or run. At all events, I have never seen 

 it do either, its modes of progression being by flight or by little jumps. It 

 sometimes jumps more than an inch at a time, that is, about six times its 

 own length. It is the only insect that I can now call to remembrance 

 which has the under side of the wings of both pair as gaily ornamented 

 as the upper side, and which manages to make a full display of its entire 

 ornamentation of body and wings at one and the same time. It does 

 this in the following manner : The fore wings, without being laterally 

 extended, are elevated so as to display anteriorly the ornamentation of 

 their upper surface, and posteriorly that of their lower surface ; at the 

 same time the hind wings pass out beneath them at the side, and fully 

 expanded, getting a twist at the base which brings the costal margin up 

 and the dorsal margin down, so that the ornamentation of their upper 

 surface is displayed in front, and that of their under surface behind. The 

 under surface of the wings are rather more gaily ornamented than the 

 upper. This is its position always in repose, and the ornamentation of 

 the abdomen is also thus exposed. I have bred both £ and °_ , and 

 observed no difference between them either in ornamentation or position. 



The larva is very pretty. It is pearly white, prettily spotted with 

 piceous, with the integument somewhat indurated. It attains a length of 

 more than one-third of an inch. It feeds on the under surface of leaves 

 of Amphicarpaea monoica, in a slight web by which the leaf is a little 

 curved downward, and in this web it passes the pupa state concealed in a 

 rather dense, flattened, lozenge-shaped cocoon. The larva is very com- 

 mon in Kentucky in June and July, and I have also found it in Septem- 

 ber. I have never met with the imago except when I have bred it, and 

 my specimens emerged from their cocoons in the latter part of July. 



TINEINA. 



STROBISIA. 



6". albatiliceella, n. sp. 



I describe this species from a single specimen presented to me by Mr. 

 Chas. Dury, of Cincinnati. Tongue, palpi and face white. Antennas 

 and vertex brown, with a bronze lustre and paler than the thorax and fore 

 wings, which are shining blackish brown, with greenish, violet reflections ; 



