380 ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 



CHERRF. LEAVES. 



blackish prickly horns, a row of small white prickly warts aL mg 

 each side of the back, and the head white and covered witli small 

 prickles; its pupa hanging with its head downwards, on the 

 under side of a limb or leaf, in a week or ten days giving out a 

 butterfly having bright tawny orange wings with black veins and 

 margins and a narrow black band across the middle of the liiiid 

 pair, the black border having a single row of white dots. Widiii 

 2.75 to 3.40. Abbot says the larva feeds on different species of 

 cherry, but it is much oftener met with on willows, and I have 

 also found it on poplar. 



83. Cltton butterfly, j^patura Clyton, Boisduval. (Lepidoptera. Nym- 

 phaUdae.)" 



A worm nearly 1.05 long and as thick as a goose quill, thickest 

 in the middle, pale green with four light greenish yellow stripes, 

 the top of its head having two yellow spines with branching 

 prickles; its pupa hanging from the under side of a limb with its 

 head downwards; the butterfly with blackish brown wings, tawny 

 orange on the basal half of the fore pair, beyond which is two 

 rows of small olive yellow spots and near the hind edge a narrow 

 yellowish band broken towards its inner end. Width 2.20. I 

 have never met with this in the State of New- York. It occurs 

 through the southern States on the cherry and other trees of the 

 same family. 



§4. American" lappet-moth, Gastropacha Americana, Harris. (Lepidop- 

 tera. Bombycidae.) 



The latter part of summer, a cylindrical worm when feeding 

 by night, but by day broad and flat, pressed to the limb and resem- 

 bling a tumor of the bark, 2.50 long, ash-gray varied with whitish 

 spots and having two transverse velvety red streaks anteriorly; 

 its pupa in a cocoon also resembling a slight swelling upon the 

 limb, of the same colors with the bark; the moth appearing m 

 May, its wings deeply notched along their hind and inner mar- 

 gins, reddish brown, both pairs crossed by a broad whitish band 

 which has a wavy dark reddish line upon each side. Width 1.50 

 to 1.90. See Harris's Treatise, p. 293. [Note. — This is the same 

 with No. 30. The repetition was not discovered till it was in type, 

 too far to cancel the error,] 



