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convolutions. The colon is constantly of a large size, and is 

 often dilated into a caecum at its anterior portion." (Siebold.) 

 The salivary glands are composed of two simple tubes, wliich 

 are A^ery large in the larval state, extending into the abdomen. 



The respiratory system is normal and well developed. In 

 the larva the stigmata are wanting on the second and third 

 thoracic and last abdominal segment. In those species of 

 Sphingidce, Bomhycidoi and JSfoctuidce , which have a 

 long-sustained flight there are numerous vesicular dilatations 

 of tlie traclica"". 



Tlie urinary tubes are six in numl)cr ; th(>y are long, free, 

 and open into the stomach by two excretory ducts. 



The silk-glands consist of two long, flexuous, thick-walled 

 sacs, situated on the sides of the body, and opening b}' a 

 common orifice on the under lip (labium) usuall}^ at the 

 extremity of a short tubular protuberance (Siebold). They 

 are most developed when the larva approaches the pupa state. 



We once found a larva of Clisiocampa Americana that had 

 just spun its cocoon, and to ascertain whether the silk had been 

 exhausted, we removed the worm from its cocoou, when it spun 

 another, but tliinner one ; and upon removing it a second time 

 it spun a third \evy tliin cocoon, before the supply of silk was 

 entirely exhausted. 



The ovary consists of four very long, spiral, multilocular 

 tubes. The receptaculum seminis is pyriform, and often has a 

 long, spiral ductus seminalis. At its base is situated a large, 

 double sebaceous gland ; and there are two small ramose 

 glands, perhaps odoriferous, situated at the orifice of the vagina. 

 The copulatory pouch is a remarkably large, pyriform reservoir, 

 having for the reception of the male intromittent organ a 

 canal, which opens by a special orifice, situated below and 

 behind the external opening of the oviduct. (Siebold.) 



The testes form two round or OAal follicles, and the two 

 short deferent canals unite with two simple and very flexuous 

 accessory glands, to form the long ductus ejaculaforius. 



Several interesting cases of hermaphroditism in butterflies 

 and moths have been published by European entomologists. 

 Mr. Edwards has noticed two remarkable instances in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Philadelphia Entomological Society (vol. iv. 



