140 zygjEnid.e and bombycid.e 



such forms have been hitherto announced in Entomological Science, 

 and a specific name in its present acceptation is only improperly to 

 be applied to them," 



This species is widely distributed, and feeds on a large variety of 

 forest trees as previously quoted. It appears on the wing in June, 

 July and August ; the larvae hatched in autum pass the winter as pupaj 

 and are evolved in the following summer. 



6-HALESIDOTA CARYJl, (Pi. G, fig. 11, $ ■) 



Lophocampa carycr, Harris, Rt. Ins. Mass. p. 258. (1841.) 

 Lophocampa carytc, Fitch, First Rt. Ins. N. Y. p. 159, fig. larva. 



(1855.) 

 HalesiJola ammh/ascia, Walk., Cat. Lep. B. M. V. p. 734. (1855.) 



Phegopier a porphyria, H. S., Lep. Exot. Sp. Nov. fig. 283. (1855.) 

 Hakstdota porphyria, H. S. Lep. Exot. Sp. Nov. fig. 283. (1858.) 

 HalcsiJola carya; Clem., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. p. 633. 



(i860.) 

 Halesidota anntili/ascia, Clem., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. p. 533. 



(i860.) 

 Halesidota caryce, Morris, Syn. Lep. N. Am. App. p. 349. (1862.) 

 Halesidota annulifascia, Morris. Syn. Lep. N. Am. App. p. 349. 



(1862.) 

 Plalesidota car yce, SdiwndQX^, Syn. Can. Arct. p. 20. (1863.) 

 Halesidota carycv, Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. 8, p. 128. 



(1864.) 

 (5. ?. — Ochre yellow with silvery white spots. Head, thoracic 

 parts, and abdomen above pale ochre yellow, somewhat paler beneath. 

 Head with transverse band in front, prothorax with small dots, and 

 inner edges of the patagia all brown. 



Anterior wings clear ochre yellow, dusted with dark brown, most 

 densely so round the spots. Five oblique transverse rows of silvery 

 white spots, those on the costa and at the base slightly tinged with 

 yellow. The ist row consists of a basal patch, connected on the 

 inner margin with the irregular sub-basal 2nd band. The 3rd row 

 lies across the base of the fourth median nervule and is widest on the 

 costa ; the 4th lies across the base of the median nervules, is slightly 

 irregular, with the costal spot largest ; the 5th is submarginal, spots 

 sub-equal, ovate, the second spot from the costa somewhat nearer the 



