FAMILY SATURNIAD.E. 83f 



Attaci's LUNA. Green Emperor Moth. (Plate xxiv, fi^. 1.) 



AcTiAs { Leach). Piiai..t;na lvna ( Linnrcai.) 

 Head small, white, cncirclcil with a f.iiiit inown and narrnw ring. Antennrc brown, pecti- 

 nated. Tlioiax i>ale yellow and w<xdly, oinaniented with a stripe In front continuous 

 with that upon the front margin of the win'.?s. Wings pea-green, marked with eyelike 

 spots near the middle : outer margin bordered with purple brown. Posterior wings 

 prolongeil into long narrow tails l)ending outwards. Body covered with a white wool- 

 ly sul)stauce, and rather close-pressed : legs purple brown. Expansion of wing about 

 five inches. 

 The caterpillar is fully grown alwut the first of August. It is of a bluish green color 

 [wrongly colored in the figure], striped with yellow on the sides, and transverselj- al.so 

 between the rings : rings marked by about six small reddish or purple warts. Length, 

 when in motion, nearly three inches ; but when at rest, only about two inches. 



In feeding, it prefers the leaf of the hickory, though it may be kept upon the leaves of 

 several of our forest-trees. In North-Carolina it feeds ujion the leaves of the liquidambar 

 or sweet gum, as also upon the persimmon. 



N. B. In some of the figures I have observed that the body and abdomen arc colored a 

 light brown, the thorax ami neck being yellowish white or cream-color in the anijnal. 



IIvDROCAMPA? nivalis ( Harris)^ Bclfa-moth. 

 Upper side : Antenna? fililorm ami brown. Wings pearly white, ciliated, and cilia brown. 

 Undek side white pearly immaculate. Expanse of wing I^ inch. 



Drvoc.\.mpa imperialis ( Harris). (Plate xl, fig- 7.) 



PnALJ.XA imperialis (Dniry) ; P. imperatoria (Abbott & Smith, Insects of Georgia) ; Cebato- 

 CAMP.v (Harris, Ca/alogue of Imects of Massachusetts) ; Cerocampa, Kirby & Spcncc) ; 

 Lariocampa (Latrcille, Sehrank.) ; Bojinvx (F.abriciu.s) ; Odo.nestis (Gcrmar, Slcphcn-s); 

 Bo.MBYX i)iDY.MA ( Pal. dc Bcauv. Ins. Lep. pi. 120). 



Male, upper side : Antennae broad in the middle, pectinated, filiform, naked, and curved 

 at the extremities ; in the females, filiform, naked. Color reddi.sh and yelbiw. Thorax 

 yellow, clouded by five brownish spots, the anterior one placed upon the median 

 line. Abdomen yellow, each ring of which is marked with broad heartlbrm bands. 

 Wings yellow, sprinkled with brown purplish linear dots ; the outer edge broadly 

 margined with brown, which connects itself from its middle by a cur\ed l>and with 

 the basal curved band : the connecting band curves and extends to the anterior 

 margin below the middle, and borders it to the base : the basal band extends along 

 the posterior margin beyond its middle, where it expands and encloses a )ellow dot- 

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