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HICKORY. LEAVES. 



green hue, each segment with six small bright rose-red elevated 

 dots, and low down along each side a pale yellow line running 

 lengthwise immediately above the lower row of dots, from which 

 line at each of the sutures a pale yellow line extends upwards 

 upon the sides and sometimes is continued across the back, the 

 head and six forward feet pale bluish green; spinning a whitish 

 tough oval cocoon with rounded ends, 1.75 long, with leaves 

 moulded to its outer surface; dropping to the ground in autumn 

 and lying among the fallen leaves through the winter, giving out 

 the moth the latter part of May; this of a delicate pea-green 

 color, its body coated over with soft white wool, with a brick-red 

 band across its anterior part and continued outward upon the 

 forward edge of the fore wings nearly to their tips; each of the 

 wings with a smallish eye-like spot near the centre, and the hind 

 pair with their inner angles prolonged into tails which are nearly 

 as long as the wings. Width 4.50 to 5.50. 



It is a remarkable feature in the Insect Fauna of this country 

 that we possess such a number of large showy moths of the group 

 Attacus of Linnseus. Though the insects of the United States 

 are generally so very similar to those of Europe and in some of 

 the families are identical in many of their species, we here observe 

 a notable difference. Whilst that continent furnishes only the 

 three kinds of Peacock, the Tau and the rare Ca'cigena, species 

 of moderate size and but little diversified in their appearance, we 

 have in the State of New- York alone eight of these elegant moths, 

 nearly all of them vieing in size and magnificence with the most 

 superb tropical products of this kind; and of a moiety of these the 

 two sexes are so very dissimilar that in the cabinet tliey appear to 

 form twelve distinct species. We have already presented some 

 account of the Cecropia, No. 33, the Promethean No. 80, and the 

 lo, No. 81, and we here come to three others the larvae of which 

 occur upon the walnut. 



Many persons on looking at these splendid insects in my collec- 

 tion have been much surprised on being informed that tht'y were 

 captured here in the State of New- York and tliat they are not 

 rare species. They are very seldom seen, as tlu-y lly only by 

 night and repose during the day time, clinging commonly to tlie 

 sides of trees in groves and forests. This present species is less 



