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segments beneath are paler posteriorly. Anal segment chestnut in the 

 centre. 



Length, 0.75 inch. 



The caterpillar when disturbed falls to the ground, concealing itself 

 at the base of its food plant, and the moth has much of the same habit, 

 feigning death and hiding in the grass and other herbage. The food 

 plants, so far as observed, are Solidago, Eiipatorium, and Symplocarpus 

 (Skunk cabbage.) 



DeIOPEIA BELLA. L. 



Larva. (Full grown.) 



Head chestnut brown, smooth, shining. Ground color of body deep 

 buff, without orange tint. Each segment has a black transverse mark 

 deeply notched before and behind, and edged broadly with white, bear- 

 ing rather long hairs, those of the dorsal region black, of the lateral 

 white. The mouth parts are white. The abdominal legs orange, 

 banded with black and white. The thoracic legs wholly black. 



Length, 30 mm. 



Food plants, Primus, Lespedeza, Ulmus, Myrica, as well as the pods 

 of Crotalaria. 



Parasa chloris. H. S. (No. 56.) 

 Larva. (Full grown.) 



Dorsal region white, with 3 stripes of bright purple, slightly waved 

 and contracted at base by the large conical processes, 6 of which (3 on 

 each side) spring from the sides of the dorsum, which are elevated into 

 a sharo ridge. The color of these processes is bright orange red, and they 

 are covered with rather long yellow hairs. The spaces between them 

 are also orange red, and bear two smaller tubercles with yellow spines. 

 Below these is a double row of purple lines, enclosing a series of small 

 orange red tubercles, and on the lower lateral region is another row of 

 spinous tubercles of the same color. The under side is wholly dull pur- 

 plish brown. 



Length, 0.9c inch; width, 0.30 inch. 



Food plants, wild cherry, Myrica, Ulmus, etc. 



LiMACODES scapha. Harris. (No. 53.) 



Larva. (Full grown.) 



Ground color pale apple green. The segments are extended later- 

 ally in the middle of the body, and raised into an elevated ridge, sharp 

 and angular at the edges. The flattened portion which includes the 

 dorsal region is- chestnut brown, darker on the margins. There is 

 also a darker dorsal stripe. The segments are arranged like the 

 plates of a tortoise. The lateral region is a pale yellowish green, with 

 oval white spot on 9 and 10 segment. Spiracles pale brown; mouth 



