110 REPORT OF No. ID 



Dasylophia thyatiroidcs Walker expands an incli and eight lines. It 

 is t)f a light warm brown. The hind margin, in the fore- wings, is sharply 

 indented. On the hind margin there is an oval spoi ; and on the inner mar- 

 gin a white lunette bordered with 1)1 a ok. Curved lines extend from this 

 across the wing. 



Heterocampa hiundata Walker is a handsome ample-winged moth. H 

 is grey with an olive tint, and is marked with wavy lines. The hindmost of 

 these presents a dotted appearance. The moth expands about two inches. 



Heterocainpa Tnanteo Doubleday and HeterocaTnpa guttivitta Walker 

 are moths difficult to describe for general readers. Their tints are blended 

 grey and brown and they have numerous dotted lines across the wings. The 

 expanse of wings of manieo is an inch and seven lines ; that of guttivitta is 

 an inch and a half. Manteo has dark brown serrations on the hind margins 

 of both primaries and secondaries. Guttivitta has a band across the prima- 

 ries, feather like, with a large brown dot in eacx. curve of the band. 



lanassa lignicolor Walker is an insect of trim and neat appearance. 

 Its fore-wings are whitish grey darkened tow^ards the hind margin. The 

 fore-wings have a somewhat striated appearance. Across the middle of each 

 of them is a confused brownish band, and beyond it is a second less distinct. 

 The hind margins of these wings are crenated. The moth expands an inch 

 and three-quarters. 



Schizura concinna Smith and Abbot is the moth that comes from the 

 "Red-Humped Caterpillar." It is of a rather insignificant appearance. Its 

 fore-wings are reddish-brow^n, its hind wings grey, with a white border. 

 It is an inch and five lines in expanse of wings. Scizura semirufescens 

 Walker is somewhat larger than concinna, but in no way more attractive. 



Scizura unicornis Smith and Abbot is easily recognized from its habit 

 of wrapping its wings around its body, and raising itself at an angle from 

 its support, so that it looks like a leafless twig. Its fore-wings are richly 

 variegated with grey, brown, red and yellow, and have numerous cross- 

 markings. The species measures an inch and four lines in expanse of wings. 



The moths called the "Kittens" come next in order. 



In Packard's "Forest Insects," page 566, Eiley's cut of Cerura multi- 

 scripta Riley is given. The insect has white "lore-wings prettily marked with 

 transverse black lines. I have one specimen taken at Cowansville long ago. 



Harpyia borealis Boisduval is a pretty moth with pale grey fore-wings, 

 crossed with a band of dark grey outlined with black. It has, near the hind 

 margin, a dark grey patch extending from the costa half way across the 

 wing. Both fore and hind wings are conspicuously doiced along the hind 

 margins with black. 



Harpyia cinerea Walker is a plainer insect than borealis. It has dark 

 grey fore-wings and white hind wings ; both bordered with black dots on the 

 hind margins, as in the case of borealis. 



In Harpyia scolopendrina Boisduval the cross band takes the outline of 

 an hour-glass. 



Usually the "kittens" are about an inch and four lines in expanse of 

 wings. The larvae of all the species are found upon willows. 



I have no doubt there are other kinds of Notodontidae to be found in 

 Quebec Province, but I have not been so fortunate as to meet them. The 

 study of this interesting family of insects will repay the Entomologist for 

 his time and attention in the gratification it will afford him. 



