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anteriorly ; the four trapezoidal spots of eacli segment which 

 rest on these dashes anteriorly, are white the front ones the 

 larger and marked with black on nearly one-half of their outer 

 portion ; on the second segment a large white spot rests on 

 each green line bordering the subdorsal. 



Stigmata small, broadly oval, black ringed. 



Legs spotted with brown. 



Several of the young larvse were found during the month of 

 May, at Schenectady, feeding on the leaves of the trumpet 

 honeysuckle the woodbine of Europe (Lonicera pericly- 

 menum). They were secured in a tin box and supplied daily 

 with fresh food. Toward the latter part of the month and 

 early in June, larvse nearly full grown, were taken from the 

 vines. They were generally found extended at rest upon 

 some portion of the stem which so closely resembled their 

 markings, that, added to their tapering extremities, they were 

 with difficulty detected appearing rather as enlargements 

 of the vine. 



From about twenty larvse collected, twelve matured and 

 formed their cocoons between the 9th and 16th of June. 



The cocoons are elongate-oval in form, and five-eighths of 

 an inch long by nearly one-fourth inch broad. They are 

 of rather a slight texture, inclosed by leaves drawn around 

 them, and were attached by their flattened under surface to 

 the bottom and sides of the paper box to which they had 

 been transferred; one cocoon, only, was fastened to a twig. 



The remains of the pupa-cases found within the cocoons are 

 of a chestnut-brown color, but were too much broken to afford 

 any special features for description. 



The first imago emerged on June 29th, having been twenty 

 days in its cocoon. June 30th, five of the moths emerged, 

 followed by others on July 3d and 4th. 



Prof. Grote, in the Buffalo Bulletin, ut cit., mentions the 

 larvse as occurring on the common honeysuckle Lonicera 

 sempervivum. 



