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below, and contiguous to the spiracles, and in young specimens a dark 

 brown line above the spiracles. The latter are black. Head round, dark 

 brown, but spotted with pale points in clusters. Top of first segment 

 marked with a semicircular, darker, but not horny, spot. Legs pale brown 

 as the belly. A\Tien disturbed snaps its body in all directions, curling and 

 uncurling it. 

 Pupa in a loose web on surface of the ground. Winged June 18, 1853. 



Catocala sp. [PI. iv, fig. 8.] 



June 10, 1841. Found on the oak tree. 



Ash colored, with a white fi-inge on each side of the belly, a whitish spot 

 on the side of the fourth segment, a crescent shaped, brown spot on the sides 

 of the eighth and ninth segments, and an oblique, brown line on each side 

 of the eleventh segment ; a long wart on the top of the eighth, and two 

 warts, or a bifid one, pointing backwards on the eleventh ring. Each seg- 

 ment has four small, round tubercles on the top, and three each side, except 

 the first, which has none, the second and third, which have only two dorsal 

 and two lateral tubercles, and the last, which has only one lateral. Head 

 cordate above, margined laterally with brown. Under side of body white 

 with a purple black round spot in the middle of the sixth, seventh, eighth 

 and ninth rinnfs. 



This caterpillar walks like a looper, its first pair of prolegs being short- 

 est, and it arches upwards the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh rings, so that 

 the first prolegs scarcely touch the branch along which it moves. When 

 disturbed it jerks its body laterally with great force, so as sometimes to leap 

 to a considerable distance. 



Cocoon and chrysalis June 15, 1841. Winged July 5, 1841. 



Ennomos philyria ^ Harr. mss. = Tilise Harr. mss. [Ennomos 

 magnaria Guen.] 



August and Sept., 1849. Stick- worm on the Tilia. 



Larva makes an oblong oval, tough but thin, paper-like cocoon, open or 

 loose at each end. Puj^a large, covered with bloom. 



Winged Sept. 25-27, 1849. Wings deflexed, but partly raised in repose, 

 so as to show the under side laterally. 



Abraxas? ribearia Fitch. 



June 26, 1848. Received irom Salem, N. York. Larva livis on currant. 



Legs sixteen. Body pale yellow spotted with black above and beneath. 



* From (fiXi'qa, the Linden. 



