having a yellow line; centrally and exteriorly a large black spot. The 

 anal segment is covered with horny excrescences. The young larvae 

 differ in being dorsally of a greenish black and not having the patches 

 of white spots. 



Feeds on Oak. 



Pupa similar to our northern species of Anisota. 



ON A COPY OF "PEALE'S LEPIDOPTERA AMERI- 

 CANA" IN THE LIBRARY OF THE ZOOLOGICAL 

 DEPARTMENT OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



By W. F. Kikby, Assistant in Zool. Dept. , B. M. 



Peak's " Lepidoptera Americana" is so rare in Europe that the 

 present copy is the only one which I have seen. It is chiefly known 

 to European Entomologists, owing to Duncan and others having 

 copied or referred to Peale's account of Sahiniia Proniethea. Percheron 

 and Englemann have not noticed the work, and Agassiz's reference is 

 curiously inaccurate. Hagen refers to i6 pp. and 4 colored plates, but 

 our copy consists of wrappers of Vol. i, No. i, 14 pages of text, 8 

 colored plates (not consecutive) and 5 plain plates, not numbered, one 

 being a duplicate of a colored one. The title on the wrapper is as fol- 

 lows; 



Lepidoptera Americana; 



or 



original figures of the moths and butterflies 



of 



North America: 



in their various stages of existence, 



and the plants on which they feed. 



Drawn on stone, and colored from nature, 



with 



their characters, synonyms and remarks on 



their habits and manners. 



By Titian R. Peale, 

 Curator of the Philadelphia Museum. 



Vol. I, No. I. 



Philadelphia: 



Printed by William P. Gibbons, 



S. W. corner Sixth & Cherry Sts., 



