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GRAPE. LEAVES. 



iiig July, wholly of a blue black color except the neck, which is 

 bright orange yellow, its body ending in a broad fan-like notched 

 tuft. Width 0.90. Much more common at the west and south 

 than in New- York. See Harris's Treatise, p. 257. 



122. Eight-spotted Forester, Alypia S-maculata, Fab. (Lepidoptera. 

 Anthroceridae.) 



The last of June, a white or light blue cylindrical worm band- 

 ed with black lines and on the middle of each ring a broader 

 orange yellow band dotted with black, and posteriorly upon each 

 side a conspicuous white spot; growing to 1.25 in length, leaving 

 the vines about the middle of July, and inclosing themselves in 

 slight webs upon the ground. The moth appearing in May, black 

 with orange shanks, each of the fore wangs with two large light 

 yellow spots, the hind ones with two white ones. Width 1.00 to 

 1.50. This is a common insect at the south, and Mr. Calverley 

 informs me he has frequently captured it around New- York. It 

 has also been found occasionally in the vicinity of Albany. 



123. Beautiful wood nymph, JEudryas grata, Fab. (Lepidoptera. Noto- 

 dontidae.) 



In July and August, a worm in all respects like the preceding 

 one, except that it has no white spot on each side and is sliglitly 

 humped above at its hind end; burying itself three or four inches 

 in the ground, and there passing the winter in its pupa state, the 

 moth coming out in July. This has the fore wings milk white, 

 bordered beliind, and also on their outer side from the base to the 

 middle with rusty brown edged on the inner side with greenish 

 olive, and with a wavy bluish white line on the hind edge at the 

 base of the fringe; hind wings nankin yellow with a blackish 

 brown Ix^rder which does not extend to the outer angle. Width 

 1.G5 to 1.85. See Harris's Treatise, p. 330. 



12 I. Peaiil wood nymph, Eudryas unio, Ilubner. 



This is equally as common as the preceding, and the worms are 

 bO nnicli alike that we as yet know not wliether there are any 

 marks whereby they can be distinguished from each other. The 

 motlis too are very similar, but the present species is somewhat 

 smaller, and has the border of the wings paler and of a tawny 



