4O2 ARTICULATES : INSECTS. 



rings. Before, and adjoining the eye-spots of the hind 

 wings, there is a large blue spot shading into black. It 

 appears in June. It is now referred to Telea. 



Fig 



Polyphemus Moth, A . polyphemns, Fabr., in the larva stage. (From Am. Naturalist.) 



The Caterpillar is light green, with pale yellow lines on 

 its sides, and on every ring are tubercles of a pearly lustre 

 and tinged with orange, red, and purple. It feeds upon 

 the leaves of the oak, elm, maple, &c. 



The Genus Saturnia Saturnians has the antennae 

 widely feathered only in the males, and the larva has small 

 warts crowned with long prickles or branching spines, and 

 these prickles sting severely. 



The lo, 5. 70, Sm. Abb., expands from two inches and 

 three fourths to three inches and a half, and the male is 

 deep yellow, the fore wings marked and spotted with pur- 

 plish-red, and the hind wings bordered next the body 

 and banded near the hind margin with the same color, 

 and within this band there is a curved black line ; middle 



of the wing with a large, rom.d, blue cpot with : broad black border and a central whi;, 

 mark ; fore wings of the femr.le purplish -brown mingled with ^ray, with a brown spot sur- 

 rounded by an irregular gray line. It is now referred to Hyperchiria. 



The Proserpina, 5. maia, Drury, expands from two 

 inches and a half to three inches, and the wings are thin, 

 black, and both pairs crossed by a broad yellow-white 



