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of the hody, and ihr double dorsal row of black spots. In oiiu .specitiieii, llic 

 l)odv is quite unilbi-inly mottled with l)lack, and the dorsal spots are not 

 clearly indicated. Length, 0.50 inch. 



Laim. — "It is larger than the canker-worm and very ditl'erent from it 

 in appearance. It is of a liriglit yellow color, with ten crinkled black lines 

 along the top of the back; the head is rust colored; and the belly is paler 

 tlian the rest of (he body. When fully <,n-own, it measures about one inch 

 and a quarter in length. It often rests with the middle of the body curved 

 upwards a little, and sometimes even witliout the support of its fore-legs. 

 'JMie leaves of the lime seem to be its natural and favorite food, for it may be 

 found on this tree every year: Init 1 have often seen it in considerable 

 abundance, with common canker-worms, on otiier trees (elm and apple trees). 

 It is hatched rather later, and does not leave the trees quite so soon as the 

 latter. Al)()ul or soon after the middle of June it s|)ins down from the trees, 

 goes into the ground, and changes to a chrysalis in a little cell five or si.\ 

 inches below the surface; and from this it comes out in the moth state 

 towards the end of October or during the month of Novemljcr. More rarely 

 its last transtbrmation is retarded till the spring. The eggs are laiil in little 

 clusters, hei-e and there on the branches. They are of an oval shape, and 

 pale \-ellow color, and are covered with little raised lines, like net-work, or 

 like (lie cells of a hoiu-y comb." — Harris, 341, 1841. 



EUBY.TA Iliibn<'r. Hate 4, fig. 18. 



Eubuja Hlibu., Verz., :U8, 18X8. 



AmiMdusis Trv\ts. (in part), Scliiii. Eur., vi (i),'J-i'J, 18-2T 



Dup., (iu part) Lcp. Fraucc, vii (iv), -2(58, 18-.J9. 

 liistoii Stepb. (ill part), Noiruuicl. Br. Ins., 4;i, 18-29. 

 AmphUhms Boisd. (in part), Geii. Ind., 195, 1840. 



H.-Scb. (in part), Scbui. Enr., iii, 99, 1847. 

 liislon Stcpli. (in part), Cat. Brit. Lcp., 10;!, 18.-)(). 



Bhtoit (in part) and AmiiJiltlusii Ledurer, Verb. Bot. Zixil. (icH. Wifn, 177, 185:!. 

 Amphhlasiis (ituMi., Pi:al., i, 2W, 18.'')7. 



Wallc, List Lcp. Hct. Br. Mns., xxi, :«)5, 18(>0. 



B(jdy very stout and hairy, i)articularly on the thorax. Head large and 

 prominent, liroad liclween the eyes and on the vertex. I'alpi short and 

 slender, not n^aching the front. Antenna' heavily pectinated nearly to the 

 tip, though the brantdies are shorter than in Bis//>)/. Fore wings long and 

 narrow, with the apex much produced, the costal edge being mucii curved 

 toward (he apex, while (he on(er (ulge is long and unusually oblicpie, and as 



