HALESIDOTA CARY^ 211 



so we let the moths fly. There has been no marked 

 increase of carycB in the place, so we think that our 

 reasoning was correct. 



Out of doors the caterpillars crawl down from the 

 trees, or drop down, and spin their cocoons in the 

 chinks of a wall or fence, under the ledge of a piazza, 

 or in some such dry, safe place. Occasionally we have 

 found them in crevices of the bark on a tree-trunk. 



The moths are yellow-brown, with the fore wings 

 spotted with white. The wings are thin and not 

 densely covered with scales, so they have not the 

 feathery look of some moths. The color varies from 

 light ocher-browu to dark brown. They fly by night. 



