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each side. Head blood red, with the triangular piece and the sides black. 

 Feet and middle of the body beneath yellow. Intermingled with the yellow 

 tufts are a few long, simple, black hali-s. On the top of the fourth, fifth, 

 si.xth and seventh rings there is a short thick tuft of white (sometimes pale 

 yellow) hairs. 



Clisiocampa sylvatica Harr. 



June 3(1, 1826. Found the larvaj on the apple tree. Head and feet 

 blue. Body with thinly scattered, yellowish hairs. First segment blue 

 above, with a yellow spot and black dot on each side of the spot ; eleven 

 next blue with a dorsal white spot; dorsum, on each side, with a reddish 

 brown stripe margined with black, and on the top varied with three smaller 

 red lines, margined with black; each white spot divides, at the hinder 

 part, a transverse black line; side with a broad blue line, margined with 

 black; below this a narrow yellow line, margined with black; remaining 

 half (lower) of the side greenish blue ; beneath blue black ; spiracles black. 



One cast its skin June 13th, and came out an imago July 1st, 1821. The 

 moths appeared about the last of June, 1820. 



Gastropacha americana Harr. 



Sept. I8th, 1830. Found larva on trunk of the apple ti'ee. Has sixteen 

 feet. Length two inches and a half, and the ti-ans verse and vertical diam- 

 eter are almost equal; body convex above, flat beneath. Hairy, but the 

 hairs disposed so that the colors of the body can be distinctly seen. Body 

 above ashen gray variegated with large, irregular, whitish spots, and finely 

 punctured above with black. A large, more conspicuous, triangular spot on 

 the sides of the fourth segment, — the apex of triangle directed backwards. A 

 similar, fiiinter one on sides of sixth segment; both white. On the posterior 

 margin of the second and third segments is a transverse band of a beautiful 

 scai-let color with a black spot at each end and a smaller dot in the middle. 

 These transverse bands are not seen except when the insect is in motion 

 or stretches forward its anterior extremity. The under side of the body is of 

 a fine yellow color, with a black, lozenge shaped spot between each of the 

 membranous feet; a much larger spot including the fore feet, in each of the 

 first three segments, and a small one beneath the segments destitute of feet. 

 The true feet are jet black, and the spurious ashen colored with a black spot 

 near the body. The head is ashen, with a depression on the front, and five 

 small black eyes each side. On the first segment are two conical tubercles 

 at each side, the lower pair being much the longest, and projecting ante- 

 riorly. Each subsequent segment has one tubercle on each side much 

 smaller, and progressively so to the last. Each tubercle is ornamented 

 Tvith a tuft of hfj^rs, also progressively shorter, the hairs being gray, and 



