360 



[New England Farmer, Vol. V, No. xxni, p. 211, Jan. 26, 1827.] 



Tremex Columba. 



$. Ferruginous, abdomen paler at the sides, posterior legs dilated, 

 blackish. 



Antennae black, ferruginous at base and tip; wings piceous, nervures 

 blackish; head and thorax as in the female; abdomen flattened, gradually 

 broader at the end, and terminated by a short, serrated, blunt spine, 

 Avhich is black at tip; thighs blackish; four anterior tibia3 and three first 

 joints of the tarsi black at tips; posterior tibite and two first joints of the 

 tarsi dilated, flattened, black, except the superior third of the tibiss; last 

 joint of the tarsus ferruginous. Length of the body rather more than one 

 inch and one fifth. The female varies in size; the largest being about one 

 and a half inch in length, exclusive of the ovipositor, and the wings ex- 

 panding over two inches and one fourth. The eggs are elongated, oval, 

 pointed at the extremity, and less than one twentieth of an inch long; they 

 are deposited during the month of September. 



[New England Farmer, Vol. VII, No. v, p. 33, Aug. 22, 1828.] 



-SJgeria Cucurbitse. 



Body tawny, with four or five black dorsal spots; anterior wings oliva- 

 ceous brown; posterior wings, except the margin and nervures, hyaline; 

 tibiffi and tarsi of the hind legs densely fringed with fulvous and black hairs. 

 Length of the body half of an inch.* The wings expand one inch and one 

 quarter. 



[New England Farmer, Vol. VII, No. v, p. 34, Aug. 22, 1828.] 



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Aretia textor. 



Body and wings white, immaculate; anterior thighs tawny; feet blackish 

 above. Length of the body rather over half an inch, expansion of the 

 Avings one inch and two fifths. 



The full grown caterpillar is about one inch and one eighth long, and is 

 of a yellowish color, the « back covered with contiguous black spots and a 

 double series of small black tubercles, and the sides with several rust col- 

 ored tubercles. From the tubercles proceed thin bunches of diverging, 

 slender, whitish, bearded hairs, intermingled with a few black ones . — The 

 head and feet are black. 



