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1— HYPHANTRIA CUNEA. (PI. 8, figs. 18, 19, 20, ^ .) 



Bombyx cunea, Drury, 111. Nat. Hist. I. p. '^6, pi. i8, fig. 4. (1770.) 

 PhalcEua punctatissima, Smith, N. H. Lep. Ins. Georgia, p. 139, 



Tab. 77. (1797-) 

 Cycma cunea, Hiibner, Verz. p. 184. (1816.) 



Cycma cunea, Hiibner, Zutr. Dritt. Hand., p. 8, fig. 405. (1825.) 

 Spilosoma cunea, Westwood, Ed. Drury, p. 34. (1837.) 

 Hyphantria punctatissima, Harris, Ins. Inj. Veg., p. 255. (1841.) 

 Spilosoma cunea, Walker, Cat. Lep. B. M. III., p. 669. (1855.) 

 Hyphantria cunea, Fitch, 3rd Rep. Ins. N. York, p 384. (1856.) 

 Hypantria cunea, Clemens, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. p. 531. 



(i860.) 

 Hypantria cunea, Morris, Syn. Lep. N. Am. app. p. 343. (1862.) 

 Hyphantria punctatissima, Harris, Ins. Inj. Veg., 3rd ed., p. 358. 



(1862.) 

 Hyphantria cunea, Saunders, Can. Ent, vol. 3, p. 36, larva. (1871.) 



3 . — White, with many black spots. Head, thorax and abdomen 

 white, the latter with a faint dorsal series of black dots. Palpi black 

 at tips above. Antennae white, pectinations of $, blackish beneath. 

 Legs white ; fore coxse and femora luteous ; tibiae and tarsi blackish 

 outwardly. 



Anterior wings white, with transvere angulated bands of blackish 

 spots, arranged as follows : A sub-basal band, angulated outwardly on 

 the median vein, inside which at the base are several small spots. 

 Band two runs through the origin of the 4th median nervule ; from 

 the inner margin to the median vein it is parallel with the outer mar- 

 gin, thence it is sharply angulated to the costa. Band three is near 

 band two, being parallel with it until it reaches the median vein, 

 where it is bent less strongly toward the costa than band two, and there- 

 fore diverges from it, passing over the discal vein. Band four is par- 

 allel to band three, and is made up of small spots not well defined ; 

 then follows a subterminal series of linear dots arranged in pairs on 

 each side of the nervules, and finally a marginal, interspaceal series 

 of black dots. These spots vary greatly, many of them being frequently 

 obsolete, giving the insect quite a difterent appearance. The bands 



