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distinct spiracles ; the band is irregularly edged aLove and below T\ith dark brown. 

 Sometimes a narrow white medio-rentral hair-line is present, narrowly edged on each 

 side with dark brown, and inclosed by the same reddish-brown tint as along the back. 

 Length, 24™"^ to SO™"'. 



Pupa. — Body green, becoming usually brown; thorax green above spotted wi!h 

 brown, the wings and legs pea-green, with two subdorsal white stripes along th*' ;il)- 

 domen, and a lateral white stripe; beneath, four longitudinal brown stripes. I'lijia 

 often becomes brown, and the wings slashed with light brown, the antennaj and fore- 

 legs of the vsame color, while the middle and hiud legs are white. The terminal .spine 

 is rather slender, long, ending in two long, large, excurved hooks ; a pair of much 

 smaller ones at their base, and two pairs on the sides, one pair on the sides near the 

 base, and the other farther underneath. Length, llmm ^q 15™™. 



Moth. — With unusually broad, transparent wings, which are white or pale ash. 

 Head deep yellow. Fore wiugs crossed by two blacii lines, the inner with four scal- 

 lops, the outer line sinuous, scalloped, with a great curve outward between the sub- 

 costal and the third median venule. Opposite the discal dots are three acute, smaller 

 scallops, all of equal size. Fringe whitisli, distinctly checkered with black on the 

 ends of the venules. Hiud wings with a scalloped outer line, often obsolete toward 

 the costal edge, varying in its distance from the outer edge ; beyond this line the 

 wing is darker than at the base. Expanse of wings, 33"^™. Its range, eo far as 

 known, is fi'om Maine and Canada to the Middle States. 



THE FIE, PAPcAPHIA. 



{Paraphia depJanaria Guen6e.) 



We have three species of Paraphia, two of which feed in the larval 

 state on couiferous trees, Mr. TVilliam Saunders having- bred P. suhato- 

 maria from the pine, on which it feeds in early summer, the moth ajD- 

 pearing late in June; the larva is not, however, known farther than that 

 its color is brown. 



The caterpillar of tlie present species was found June 23, at Brunswick, 

 Me., on the fir j on the li7th it became a chrysalis, and the moth escaped 

 about a week or ten days later. 



Desckiptive. — Larva. — Body cylindrical; in color and appearance like a fir twig. 

 Head rounded, somewhat bilobed; body with no humps. Supra-anal j)late rounded, 

 not pointed at the tip, wiih six hairs. Color reddish brown with a greenish tint. 

 Head greenish, mottled, and finely si^otted, especially on each side of the vertex, with 

 reddish brown ; a row oi lateral irregular dark blotcbes. Length, 22"^™. 



Fiqya. — Of the usual shape, but rather stout; dark tau-brown in color. Terminal 

 spine (crcmaster) large aud stout, the surface corrugated at the base ; ending in a fork, 

 each branch of which ends iu two excur-vcd hooks. Length, 12'"™. 



Moth. — Fore wings subocherous, with a median whitish band, beneath ochorous. 

 The male maybe distinguished by its smaller size, by the wings being more ocherous, 

 by the distinct discal dots, and by the rather distinct median white band on the fore 

 wings. The female differs greatly from tlie male, being much larger and with the 

 wings more serrate, the two inner lines more or less obsolete, the border of both wings 

 being much darker than the inside of the Aving, the border sometimes having a lilac 

 tinge. From the female of P. suhaiomaria, it dill'ers in its still smaller size, iu having 

 usually but one eubapical spot, instead of three as is usually the case in the other 

 species, and in the outer border of the wings being d;irkor or more decidedly ocher- 

 ons. The wings of the female are more deeply serrated than in the other species. 

 Expanse of wings, 22™"" to 35""". 



THE SPEUCE THEEEN'A. 



(TJierina fervidaria Hiibner.) 



This common insect feeds in Maine on the spruce, as the pupa was 

 found early in August, and the moth was disclosed August 21. The 

 larva was, unfortunately, not described. Abbot bred it in Georgia from 

 the Ealesia dipteraj and from his manuscript sketches, preserved in the 



