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CHERRY . LEAVES. 



in size and colors; growing to about an incli in length and then 

 dispersing and spinning their cocoons in crevices of the bark and 

 similar sheltered situations; the moth appearing the fore part of 

 the following summer, a milk white miller without any spots or 

 dots on its wings, its fore thighs tawny yellow in front and the 

 anterior feet alternated with black and Avhite on their fore side. 

 Width 1.25 to 1.35. This is quite common some years, and 

 occurs upon the ash, willow, and several other trees. See 

 Harris's Treatise, p. 276. 



A Brazilian moth very similar to that of our Fall web worm, has been sent 

 me from Bahia, by my friend A. de Lacerda. In this the basal part of the 

 outer edge of the fore wings and the feet are blackish, and the four anterior 

 shanks are orange 3'-ellow on their outer side with a blackish spot on their base 

 and another on their middle. Its expanded wings measure 1.50. Its pupa is 

 white with the abdomen llesh colored and is beautifully variegated with sym- 

 metrical black stripes and spots, from which circumstance, as I meet with no 

 description of this species, I have named it in my collection, Hyphantria picti- 

 pupa or the Painted puppet. 



§9. Yellow-necked ermine moth, Hyphantria collaris, new species. 



A moth closely related to the preceding and doubtless possess- 

 ing the same habits, has been sent me from Mississippi, and pro- 

 bably occurs througliout the southern states. It is milk white 

 and glossy, its head, neck, base of the outer edge of the fore 

 wings and the antericjr hips are pale ochre yellow, and its feet 

 pale brown. Width 1.35. 



90. Dotted erminj^moth, Hyphantria punctata, new species. 



A Worm similar to tliat of tlie Fall web worm and possessing 

 the same habits, producing in June a milk white miller having a 

 continuous black stripe on the fore side of its anterior iict and 

 slianks, tlieir thii^hs and hii)S being yellow in front, and llic fore 

 wings liaviiig a black central dot, and in tlu' males a mw of 

 small blackisli spots extending from the jniddle <>f i1h' inner 

 margin to the tip. Widlli l.(>5 to 2.00. This is lie<juenlly met 

 with in our district, though much less common tliau tlie Fall web 

 worm. 



