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Actias luna, Liun. Food ; walnut, hickory, maple, birch, sweetgum, etc. 



Common. 

 Telea polyphemus, Cram. Food ; basswood, maple, oak, hornbeam, hazel, 



cherry, plum, apple, quince, pear, thorn, elm, willow, poplar, hickory, 



sycamore, birch, locust, etc. Common. 

 Satnia cynthia, Dr. Food ; Ailanthus, sassafras, basswood, tulip-tree, wild 



cherry;^plum, dogwood, lilac, caster bean, and Vihui-num lentago. Very 



commoii. 

 Callosamia promethia, Dr. Food ; sassafras, basswood, wild cherry, lilac, 



tulip-tree, sweet-gum, ash, birch, apple, plum, magnolia, buttonbush, 



barberry, maple, hornbeam, azalia, snowdrop tree {Halesia tetraptera), 



etc. Common. 

 Callosamia angulifera, Walk. Food ; tulip-tree, sassafras, and wild cherry. 



Not common. 

 Platysamia cecropia, L. Food ; maple, elder, willow, poplar, elm, oak, 



alder, hornbeam, hazel, blackberry, apple, pear, plum, cherry, quince, 



barberry, currant, etc. Common. 

 Hypercheria io, Fab. Food ; rose, apple, pear, cherry, blackberry, oak, 



hazel, hornbeam, beech, elm, maple, willow, poplar, clover, Wisteria, 



carrot, etc. Common. 

 Eacles imperialis, Dr. Food ; basswood, sumac, maple, honey-locust, wild 



cherry, sweet-gum, sassafras, elm, sycamore, oak, beech, hornbeam, 



birch, alder, pine, spruce, cedar, cypress, and juniper. Common. 

 Citheronia regalis, Fab. Food ; sumac, sweet-gum, sycamore, hickory, 



walnut, butternut, ash, and persimmon. Not common. 

 Anisota stigma, F. Food ; oak, hazel, and chestnut. Common. 

 Anisota senatoria, A. & S. Food; oak, chestnut, and hazel. Common. 

 Anisota virginiensis, Dr. Food ; oak. Not common. 

 Anisota rubicunda, Fab. Food ; maple. Common. 

 Clisiocampa americana, Harr. Food ; apple, phim, wild and cultivated 



cherry. Common. 

 Clisiocampa disstria, Hiib. Food ; Juneberry, apple, plum, cherry, ash, 



oak, poplar, walnut, hickory, etc. Not common. 

 Gastropacha americana, Harr. Food ; celtis, apple, cherry, poplar, maple, 



and birch. Not common. 

 Artace punctistriga, Walk. Food ; oak. Very rare. Taken on Long 



Island by Mr. Tepper. 

 Tolype velleda, StoU. Food ; cherry, apple, poplar, lilac, oak, elm, etc. 



Cumuion. 

 Tolype laricis, Fitch: Food ; pine and larch. Rare. 

 Prionoxystus robiniae, Peck. Larva bores in the trunks of oak, willow, 



locust, chestnut, and poplar. Common. 

 Hepialus argenteomaculatus, Harr. Larva in stems of alder. Rare. 

 Zeuzera aesculi, L. Taken in numbers at Newark, N. J., by Mr. Angleman, 



who has also detected the larva boring in twigs of elm ; also found by 



me in Central Park. Rather common. 

 Annals N. Y. Acad. Sci., V, Mar. 1890—14 



