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Apple, leaves. 

 2 50 long, fringed low down on each side with tufts of blackish 

 and gray hairs, and readily known by its having above on the 

 fore part two bright scarlet velvety bands. The moth tawny red- 

 dish brown, the inner angle of its fore wings notched as though 

 eaten oft* by a worm, and commonly a pale cloud extending from 

 this notch towards the tip, edged often on each of its sides by a 

 zig zag dark brown line. Width 1.50 or more. Appearing the 

 latter part of May. See Harris's Treatise, p. 293. 



31. Velleda lappet moth, Planosa Velleda, Stoll. (Lepidoptera. Bom- 

 bycidae.) 



A worm similar to the foregoing in its habits ana appearance, 

 but of a faint pale green color with numerous irregular whitish 

 lines resembling the streaks upon bark, and with a narrow black 

 band above in the suture between the second and the third rings. 

 The moth milk white with a large auburn brown spot on the mid- 

 dle of its back, its fore wings entire, dusky gray, crossed by a 

 wavy white line near the hind edge and two others forward of 

 this near the middle; the males scarcely half as large as the 

 females. Width 1.25 to 2.75. See Harris's Treatise, p. 293. 



32. American vaporer moth, Orgyia leucostigma, Smith and Abbot. (Le- 

 pidoptera. Arctiidas.) 



In winter, clusters of white eggs and a dead leaf adhering to a 

 whitish cocoon, attached to the twigs or limbs. In midsummer a 

 slender caterpillar with pale yellow hairs and tufts and black 

 pencils, its head and two small protuberances on the hind part 

 of the back bright coral red. The moth dull smoky or sooty brown, 

 its fore wings with a white dot near the inner angle, a rhombic 

 black spot on the outer edge near the tip, with an oblique black 

 streak forward of it, which is often prolonged to the inner margin 

 and forms the hind edge of a broad ash gray band crossing the 

 middle of the wing. Variable. Width 1.20 to 1.40. Females 

 without wings, ash gray. See Transactions, 1855, p. 441. 



33. Cecropia emperor moth, Attacus Cecropia, Linn. (Lepidoptera. Bom- 

 bycidas.) 



In August, consuming the whole leaf and its veins, a large 

 cylindrical pale green worm three or four inclies long and as thick 

 as one's thumb, and having two rows of pale blue urojecting 



