452 ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 1^ 



HICKORY. LEAVES. 



face snow-white crossed by two black bands, tlie outer raised lines 

 dotted with white in these bands; the thorax black, tawny yellow 

 on each side beyond the raised lines; neck white with a row of 

 blackish dots upon each side; wing covers smoky-brown, their 

 veins dotted with black in places, their basal edge, an oblique 

 band and a spot on the middle of the outer margin white, their 

 membranous tips white and somewhat hyaline, with a brown band 

 across the transverse veinlets and the hind margin blackish inter- 

 rupted by the snow-white tips of the veins; wings black and 

 transparent; under side yellowish- white with two blackish bands 

 on each of the four forward shanks. Length of the male 0.18. 

 This was taken in company with the preceding, the middle of 

 September. It may possibly be a variety of the F!ata nava of 

 Say, much more colored with black than in the specimens from 

 which his description was drawn. 



179. Cloudy-tipped Cixius, Cixius col<Bpeum, new species. 



A small four-winged fly of a coal-black color with clear trans- 

 parent wings having a large smoky-brown cloud on their tips; 

 wing covers transparent, their veins dotted with black, the dots 

 on the outer margin larger; an irregular and somewhat broken 

 band of a smoky brown color extending across forward of the 

 middle and a broader one beyond the middle, having a black spot 

 or stigma on the anterior corner of its outer end; between these 

 bands a smoky brown spot on the inner and a smaller one nearly 

 opposite it on the outer margin; thorax with three raised lines; 

 face black with the raised lines brown; legs dull whitish. Length 

 0.22. This also is a rare species. 



Amyot's Otiocerus, No. 110. In each of the few instances in 

 which I have met with this insect it has occurred UDon walnut 

 bushes. 



The Large green tree bug No. 99, is a common species upon 

 hickory as well as on several other trees. 



3. Eaiing the Leaves. 



180. Luna moth, Jdias Luna, Linn. (Lepidoptera. Bombycidae.) 



In August, a large thick-bodied worm three inches long or more, 

 of an apple-green color and its under side of a deeper or leaf- 



