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Tlie flight and habits of this moth are much the same as those of the S. acraa, which it 

 also rfSimMcs in figure. hut is smaller. The caterpillar is l)rown,wilh five jmie lungitutii- 

 ual liues, ami covered with long Imirs growing Jnun Itilvous tuhercks : it feeds ujion 

 jilanlain, leaves of indian corn, peas, etc., ami is frequently quite iiijiu-inus. 



The moth apjiears iu the vicinity of Albany, and in Western Massachusetts, in June; 

 perhaps earlier. While they are said to be occasionally injurious to corn in the Southern 

 States, the insect is loo rare here to give rise to much apprehension. 



Eicu^cTEs EGLE. (Plate xli, fig. II.) 



PnALiENW EGLE ( Drury). Spilosoma EGLE ( Westwood). Eicir-ETEs' ( Harris), 

 Antennrc slightly pectinated. Head, thorax, underside of the bo<]y, and legs gray. Win"s 

 thin, bluish gray, paler on the ft'ont etlge, immature. Neck cream-colored : t(pof the 

 abdomen indian yellow, and marked with three rows of black spots, one on the top 

 aud two on the sides, (ach row consisting ol' about seven spots. U^DER side : Tonpu« 

 spiral, a little longer tiiau the head : abdomen pale yellow : wings gray; margins 

 entire. 

 Caterpill.\r : Head, body and legs black, and marked with a light-colored line on each 

 side, hairy ; hairs grow in short tufts fmra warts. The first aud second rings support 

 four long pencils or tufts, which bend over the head. 

 The caterpillars feed upon the milkweed (jJsclcpias syriaca), and may be regarded as 

 harmless : they are social, and, when feeding, their heads are turned to the edge of the 

 leaf. 



Callimorpha TiRGChxuLA ( Klrby). ( Plate xlvii, fig. 5.) 



Color black. Head and thorax striped with black and orange. Forewings, ramifications of 

 the nervures orange : hindwings orange marked with black, roundish. Alidomen 

 orange above, marked along the middle with triangular black spots : beneath paler. 

 Lateral jwrtions of the abdominal rings marked by a double row of angular spots 

 placed ch)se together : venter pale orange. Expansion of wing, 1 ^ inch. 

 This is a common species in the vicinity of Albany ; found in meadows in August. 

 Figured in Kichakdson's Fauna Borcali Amerioina. 



Callimorpha partiienice. ( Plate xlvii, fig. ti.) 



Body beneath black. Head and thorax pale orange, marked with five oblong spots, two 

 before and three behind. Forewings black and orange : the orange follows mostlv the 

 nerves, but transverse bands are sent off so as to form many triangular sjjots. Hind- 

 wings red, marl:ed with large black patches surrounded by narrow luteous rings ; 

 beneath paler and more dusky. Beneath, the ringsof the abdomen are black, and the 

 * KDOu.£Tiia, mcauiuj; fine fioiomg mane ; a luau: applicable U> catcrpiUon. 



