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thin and loose threads, like a spider's web, the white pupa could 

 plainly be seen, with some black marks on its back. After the escape 

 of the imago, the puparium was of a light horn color, with small 

 black spots surrounding the stigmata and with black lines on the 

 incisures of the four anterior dorsal segments, and with two black 

 spots at the base of each wing-cover. The tongue-case projected 

 above an eighth of an inch, over three of the abdominal segments. 

 Anal spine short and straight. 



This beautiful moth has been frequently taken at Schoharie, in 

 some seasons not having been at all rare. 



Plusia seroides Grote. 



A moth of this species emerged from cocoon July 8th (1861). The 

 larva was taken while sweeping some low plants of violets, etc. No 

 description was made. It was of a delicate apple-green color, with- 

 out hairs, with rather deep incisures. It is believed to have had 

 some yellow markings upon it. 



Scoliopteryx libatrix (Linn.). 



The moth emerged August 3d, from a cocoon which had been 

 found lightly spun within a willow leaf. There are probably two 

 annual broods of this species, as I have taken it in the early part of 

 May. 



I learn from Dr. Speyer that the brief description which I have 

 given of the larva in the 23<$ Report on the State Cabinet, p. 695, 

 corresponds with the European form, and that they agree, also, in 

 their habit of pupation. 



Catocala parta Guen. 



Larva found on the willow July 7th. It spun some leaves together, 

 and twenty-two days thereafter the moth appeared. 



Mesographe stramentalis Htibn. 



Larva measuring from seven to eight-tenths of an jnch in length. 

 Head small, glossy black. Body spindle-shaped, slate-colored dor- 

 sally, dull green ventrally ; on the dorsum are two rows of small 

 white dots; just above the stigmata a broad yellow stripe, and 

 whitish markings below the stigmata ; collar glossy black ; several 

 rows of black tubercles having on two sides of most of them a white 

 dot, and in each tubercle a short black hair. 



