234 BELLY-SPOTTED MOTH. 



gray color marked on their outer side with a broad black stripe which contin- 

 ues backward to the neck and embraces the eye. The spur-like tips of the 

 feelers are white with a black line on the fore side. The spiral tongue when 

 uncoiled is nearly as long as the antennae, and these reach backward almost 

 two-thirds the length of the wings, and are black alternated with white rings. 



I notice this species as it is the only one belonging to the genus 

 which I have captured when in the act of depositing its e^gs. It 

 passes these through a long tube or ovipositor which is half the 

 length of the abdomen when extended, and is composed of three 

 cylindrical joints of a pale color, which shut into each other like 

 the joints of a telescope. Its eggs are quite small, oval and opake 

 white, and those of the other species are probably similar. 



Another species larger than either of the preceding occurs in 

 woods at the close of autumn, and is remarkable for having both 

 pairs of wings relatively broader and the tips of the anterior ones 

 much more obtuse and cut off obliquely so that the extreme apex 

 forms an obtuse angle instead of an acute one as in the other 

 species; and whilst the other species show no very distinct spots 

 or marks upon their bodies we here upon the under side of the 

 abdomen meet with a broad white stripe having a row of black 

 spots along its middle. It may hence appropriately be named 



The belly-spotted ( C. ventrcllus'). Its expanded wings measure 0.80. It 

 is of an ash gray color with a satin-like lustre, the fore wings varied with paler 

 freckles and sprinkled with numerous black atoms which in places are partial- 

 ly arranged in irregular transverse wavy lines, and on the apical edge is a row 

 of equidistant black dots or short streaks placed on the intervals between the 

 ends of the veins. The fringes and hind wings are pale lead colored or smoky. 

 The abdomen is obscure yellowish, its apex ash-gray, and along each side is a 

 row of glossy whitish spots, one upon the hind edge of each segment. Its un- 

 der side is smoky, with a very broad white or pale dull yellow stripe along 

 the middle, in which is a row of conspicuous black dots, one upon the hind 

 edge of each segment, and on each side of these dots the edges of the segments 

 have a glossy white reflection forming bands of this color. The wings are paler 

 on their under sides and very glossy, the anterior ones whitish towards their 

 tips and along the hind edge and regularly alternated with dark spots, whereof 

 one is situated on the extreme tip, four others forward of it along the outer or 

 costal edge and four slightly smaller ones upon the apical edge. 



Time only can show whether any of these near relatives of the 

 palmer worm which we have now been considering are liable at 

 times to become excessively numerous like that insect, and like 

 an allied species, the cabbage moth, described in my First Report. 

 Should artificial interference to check their depredations become 



