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APPLE. LEAVES. 



the wings also, at least in one sex, is a white crescent, beyond 

 which a white or pale red band crosses both wings. In addition to 

 our two American species, this genus includes the East Indian 

 Cynthia of Drury, the parent of the Arrindy silk-worm, noted for 

 yielding a fabric of such durability that garments made from it 

 outlast a person's life time, and are handed down from parents to 

 children, like other heir-looms in a family. These three insects 

 also present as striking a resemblance to each other in their pre- 

 paratory as in their perfect states. And these species being thus dis- 

 posed of, the genus Saturnia will remain for those moths like 

 Pavonia^ which have large opake eye-like spots in the centre of 

 the wings. 



34. Apple Sphinx, Sphinx Gordius, Cramer. (Lepidoptera. Sphingidee.) 



The fore part of August, adhering when at rest to the under 

 side of a twig, with the forward half of its body held obliquely 

 outward. A thick, cylindrical apple-green worm, 2.50 long, with 

 a reddish brown horn projecting upward from the hind part of 

 its back, and along each side seven oblique violet stripes margined 

 on their hind side with wiiite. Burying itself deep in the earth 

 and producing a large strong narrow-winged moth the following 

 May or June, its fore wings sooty brown varied with ash gray, 

 wath black streaks between the veins and a white dot near the 

 middle, placed upon a long slender black line. Width 2.80 to 

 3.50. See Silliman's Journal, vol. xxxvi. p. 295. 



35. Blin'd-eykd Sphinx, Smerinthus exccBcatus, Smith and Abbot. (Lepi- 

 doptera. Sphingidas.) 



Similar in size, habits and appearance to the preceding, but tlie 

 worm with a rough granular skin of an apple green color, with 

 the liorn bluisli, the seven streaks along each side narrow, yel- 

 lowish white, and two short pale lines before. The moth with 

 rose red hind wings, having near their inner angle a black spot 

 with a pale blue centre. Rare. See Silliman's Journal, vol. 

 xxxvi, p, 290. 



36. r^ARGE tello*v buttkhfly, Papilio Tumus, Linn. (Lepidoptera. Pa- 

 ])ilionidrt3.) 



In August, commonly seen resting day after aay upon a small 

 mass of cobweb-like threads upon the upper surface of a particu- 



