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PLUM. LEAVES. 



oblique wliite streaks margined with violet upon their upper sides, 

 the head with a wiiite stripe on each side. The pupa under 

 ground, giving out the moth the following June, which hovers 

 about flowers at dusk, resembling a humming bird in its motions; 

 its fore wings measuring from 3.20 to 4.50 when spread; half 

 their surface occupied by a broad dark brown band extending 

 from their inner margin to the tip, in which are about five slender 

 oblique coal-black streaks; the space forward of this band pale 

 reddish gray or ashy clouded with hoary white, and having near 

 tlie "middle a blackish crescent crossed by a long very slender 

 black line; its abdomen gray with a black stripe along the middle, 

 and the sides black with a row of white spots. 



The Cecropia emperor moth, No. 33, a large pea green worm 

 with two rows of small yellow prickles on the back and blue 

 ones on the sides, is occasionally met with on the plum. 



66, Unicorn Prominent, Notodonta unicornis, Smith and Abbot. (Lepi- 

 doptera. Notodontid. 



In August and September, a w^orm eating a notch in the side of 

 the leaf, often of the exact length of its body, and placing itself 

 in this notch, with the humps of its back resembling the teeth 

 along the edge of the leaf, eventually consuming all the leaf but 

 a small portion of its base; the worm brown like a faded leaf, 

 with its second and third rings leaf green, its head large, and on 

 top of the fourth ring a long horn-like protuberance; growing to 

 1.25 in length; forming a cocoon on the ground under fallen 

 leaves; the moth appearing in July; its fore wings light brown 

 with patches of greenish white and many dark brown lines, 

 the hind margin white and near the inner angle a small white 

 and two black dashes. Width 1.25 to 1.50. See Harris's 

 Treatise, p. 327. 



67. \Vavkd tussock moth, Trichetra opercularis, Smith and Abbot. Lcpi- 

 doptcra. Arctiidie.) 



A caterpillar with brownish evenly shorn hairs rising to a ridge 

 along the middle of the back and sloped off on each side like tlie 

 r<X)f of a house; niakin;? a touujh oval cocoi.n in September, 

 which is fastened to the side of a twig, its top opening by a flat 



