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CHERRY. LEAVES. 



§5. Hag moth, Limacodes pithecium. Smith and Abbot. (Lepidoptera. Arc 

 tiidae.) 



In August and Septemoer, a flattened dark brown singular 

 looking worm of an oblong and nearly square form, the sides of 

 its body prolonged outwards into eleven tooth -like processes, the 

 tliree middle ones of which are longer with their ends curved 

 backward, growing to nearly an inch in length, its pupa state 

 passed in a small cocoon fastened to a limb; the moth dusky 

 brown, its fore wings varied with pale yellowish brown, and 

 crossed by a narrow wavy curved band of this color, edged on its 

 hind side near the outer margin with dark brown, and having near 

 the centre a light brown soot. Width 0.95 to 1.25. See Harris's 

 Treatise, p. 324. 



86. Dry leaf measure-worm, Geometral siccifolia, new species. (Lepidop, 

 tera. Geometridae.) 



A measure worm m many respects like the preceding, but more 

 narrow and flattened and having a marked resemblance to a dry 

 withered leaf or the brown scraggy fragment of a dead twig, may 

 frequently be met with some years, in August and September, most 

 commonly upon choke cherry bushes. It is 0.80 long and a dull 

 dark umber brown color, sometimes of a paler yellowish shade, 

 and with a blackish streak along the middle of its back. The 

 three middle segments are nearly double the width of the others, 

 their sides being prolonged obliquely forwards and upwards in 

 tliin flat triangular projections having their tips blunt or slightly 

 ntjtched, and commonly ending in two little sharp teeth. The 

 next segment back of these is also slightly prolonged outwards. 

 On the top of the segment next to the last are two little horns 

 projecting upward. Adhering to a twig with its four hind feet, it 

 remains motionless with its body slightly bent and turned upward, 

 and if knocked to the ground it lies perfectly still. No one from 

 its appearance, would suspect it to be anything possessed of life. 

 The latter part of September it draws two or three leaves together 

 ticing them with silken threads, and spins its cocoon within them; 

 but I have not yet succeeded in obtaining the moth from these 

 cocoons. 



