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The larva has also been taken at Sclioharie, N&quot;. Y., September 9th, 

 feeding on hickory, and by Mr. Meske, at Sharon Springs, N. Y., 

 feeding on beech (Fagus ferruginea). 



Aeronycta morula Gr.-Rob. 



The larva of this species was taken at Schoharie, K. Y., Septem 

 ber 26th, at rest, on some threads spun over a scar on the trunk 

 of a young apple tree, in which position, from its colors and mark 

 ings, it could scarcely be distinguished from the bark. Length 

 (mature) one inch and a half. Head black on the sides and top, and 

 whitish in front, appressed to the stem when at rest. Body light 

 brown, with a pale brown median line between two dark brown 

 stripes which, on the middle of each segment, curve outwardly around 

 a wart; on the fourth, seventh and eleventh segments these warts 

 are larger and are bordered without with black ; the lateral rows of 

 tubercles are pale brown, with white hairs radiating from them ; the 

 hairs of the two lower rows are long, as are those which project over 

 the head ; the dorsal hairs, especially those on the warts, are short, 

 appearing as if closely trimmed; above, and running backward from 

 each stigma, is a dark brown dash ; whitish dots, each bearing a hair, 

 are sprinkled over the body. Legs black ; prolegs greenish. 



The habit of the caterpillar seems to be to rest on the bark during 

 the day, after the manner of the Catocalas, feeding only at night. 



It spun a thin cocoon, on the 20th of September, in an angle of a 

 box beneath some pieces of bark. The imago emerged June 7th, 

 (1861). 



Ceramica picta (Harris). 



Head small, rounded, pale red. Body conspicuously marked with 

 three broad black stripes ; the dorsal one is velvety black, with mar 

 ginal indentations, two of which, near the posterior portion of each 

 segment, are larger than the others; within the stripe, on the crown 

 of the segment, are small, white, transversely oval spots, arranged in 

 a square of four, or with one or two obsolete ; between this stripe and 

 the lateral one is a narrow stripe of gamboge-yellow. The lateral 

 stripe is broad, with numerous transverse white markings, appearing 

 blue by contrast with the black, breaking it into lines resembling 

 IVNW, etc. ; a regularity is traceable in these characters, for exam 

 ple, the stigmata of the central segments are situated in a semi-oval 

 black spot in the base of a V character, followed by another V and 



