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sal, and the others lateral, the lateral stripes consisting of transverse, letter- 

 like, black characters on a white ground ; but the white ground seen without 

 a glass api^ears pale blue. Head and anal prolegs pale red. 



Found eating the leaves of cabbages in Sept. and Oct., 1822. • Entered 

 the earth Oct., 1822. Winged insect came out June 17, 1823. 



Noctua sp. 



Oct. 2 7, 18-11. Three specimens found crawling on the library walls. 

 When handled they curl up like the larvae of the Arctice, or of Cimbex. 



Smooth, subcylindrical, and with sixteen perfect legs, a broad purple 

 brown stripe on the back (narrowed to a point behind) ; bordered on each 

 side by a narrower, pale yellow stripe, the latter edged with black above ; 

 below the yellow stripe a wider one of a purple brown color, paler than the 

 dorsal stripe; just on or above the line of the spiracles a black line; below 

 this a yellowish white stripe, equal in breadth to the yellow stripe above ; 

 upper part of the first segment with two black stripes between the yellow 

 ones. Head, body beneath, and prolegs, pale red ; true legs pale ochre 

 yellow, with blackish claws. Length one inch and a quarter. 



Contracted Oct. 29, 1841, and became chrysalis Oct. 31. Winged Aug. 

 10, 1842. 



Noctua sp. [PI. I, fig. 9.] 



Sept. 28, found on Smilax rotundifolia, and was much larger than the 

 figure. 



Smooth, subcylindrical, with sixteen perfect feet, and with three rich 

 purple brown stripes between four nari"ower yellow stripes. The two upper 

 yellow stripes are banded on each side by a narrow black line ; the lowest 

 yellow stripe, containing the spiracles, is narrower than the others, and is 

 bounded below by a purplish red line ; body beneath whitish ; head pale 

 red ; legs reddish white, except the last pair, which are more decidedly red. 



Went into the earth on the 28th. 



Euclidia? erechtea Cramer. 



Oct. 21, 1847. Found larva on fence, and another on a dead leaf. 



Brownish flesh color, with darker longitudinal stripes, and two similar 

 stripes on the head, two black dots on each side of the body in the inter- 

 sections between the fourth and fifth, and fifth and sixth segments, shown 

 only when the larva is contracted, as In the figures. Anal prolegs very long, 

 divaricated ; abdominal legs four, on the eighth and ninth segments. Pos- 

 ture in repose, as in the figures [supra, y>- 175]. 



Cocoon in a leaf same day. 



Oct. 30, 1849. Found climbing on the trunk of a tree. 



