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The larva has also been taken at Schoharie, N". Y., September 9th, 

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

 feeding on beech (Fayus ferruginea). 



Acronycta morula Gr.-R6b. 



The larva of this species was taken at Schoharie, N. 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 



