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which is interrupted iu the middle of the body. Anal legs large and broad, with 

 unusually large supra-anal piliferous tubercles. All the legs concolorous with the 

 body ; a flesh-colored patch beneath ou the tirst abdominal segment. Length, 42""". 

 Imago. — Quite uniformly chocolate brown or coffee-with-milk color. It is of the 

 same size, and very nearly allied to E. aerrataria, but is never so yellow, and the 

 wings are less serrate. Certain females are uniformly pale ash-brown, others are 

 yellowish-brown. Usually, however, in both sexes the wings are broadly margined 

 with brown, with two or three black apical spots, and the discal dots are large and 

 distinct. Expanse of wings, 1.60 to L80 inches. 



9. Limacodes vh-idua Reakirt. 



10. Limacodea sp. 



This larva was observed at Providence September 18. 



Larva. — Body broadly oval, the edge with a broad, thin margin, from which arises 

 a raised central broad ridge, the surface of which is hollow, with the sides forming 

 the ridges. The entire body is irregularly and coarsely wrinkled, with coarse granu- 

 lations. The body is pale green, touched with yellow along the two dorsal ridges 

 and along the edge. Along the middle of the back is a row of ten or eleven round 

 yellow spots centered with a dark dot. A row of similar but larger, more diffuse, 

 yellow dark-centered spots between the dorsal ridge and the edge of the body. 

 Head, as nsual, retracted within the prothoracic segment; three pairs of thoracic,, 

 but no abdominal feet. Length, S.b'^"' ; breadth, 5™™. 



11. Notodonta ? sp. 



This species, while occurring on the chestnut at Providence ; in Maine,, 

 where this tree does not grow, lives at the exj)euse of the oak. 



Larva. — Head very large, very much wider than the body ; broad and somewhat, 

 flat in front, swollen on the vertex; pale green ; on I he side is a bright, brick-red 

 line edged on each side with straw yellow, which connects with a lateral line which 

 incloses most of the spiracles and ends on the side of the supra-anal plate. A red- 

 dish line above, in the middle of the supra-anal plate. Body yellowish green ; a 

 double whitish-yellow dorsal line, and below on each side two narrow broken sub- 

 dorsal yellowish lines. The body gradually tapers to the hind legs, which are no 

 longer and not quite so thick as the other abdominal legs. All the legs, including^ 

 the thoracic, pale green. Length, 22""". 



12. Geometrid larva. 



This measuring worm occurred on the chestnut at Providence, June 

 10. 



Larva. — Body slender, head large, swollen, a little wider than the body, and dull 

 reddish amber or pale brick-red. Segments somewhat wrinkled, with four line dorsal 

 tubercles. Very dark slate color, with paler subdorsal lines. Supra-anal plates pal© 

 flesh color; anal legs broad, dark on the front edge, pale flesh behind, with large par 

 anal tubercles. Dark beneath. Length, 10"'™. 



13. Geometrid larva. 



This larva appears to feed indifferently on the hornbeam (Ostrya) 

 or chestnut in the vicinity of Providence, where it occurs as early as 

 Jnne 10. 



