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rarely two, larvae may be found, though there are many such nests on the 
bush. The larvæ seem to take pleasure in letting themselves down by 
their threads about half way to the ground and swinging in the air. They 
are a little over one inch long, slender, greenish-white, with a darker 
green longitudinal line on the back, and about eight small black spots on 
each segment, except the second (the head being the first), which, has 
only four or five. The spots are arranged in longitudinal lines. The 
pupa is green. Pupa May 28th. Imago June 6th. 
3. IT. longimaculella. N. sp. 
White ; posterior wings yellowish-white, fringed with white. ‘There 
are two black annulations on the terminal joint of the palpi: one at its 
base, the other near the apex. Antenne yellowish, faintly annulate with 
fuscous. A small black spot on the posterior margin of the vertex and 
anterior margin of the thorax, and about four distinct black spots on the 
posterior margin of the thorax, and a black spot on the base of the tegule. 
Extreme costa black at the base, a long black spot parallel with the fold, 
beginning at the base of the costa, and about sixteen other ob/ong black 
spots upon the wing, forming three or four irregular lines of spots, which 
sometimes seem to coalesce. Besides these spots, there are a few black 
scales scattered over the wing, and about twelve smaller spots extending 
around the apex at the base of the ciliæ. Alar ex. $ inch. Kentucky. 
Common. 
Larva unknown. I took numerous specimens in the forest, June 
Ath. The spots, besides being oblong, are larger than in 77 ewonymella, 
which is the prettier insect of the two, though both are very pretty. 
. HERIBEIA ? STEPHENS. 
Stephen’s generic descriptions are so general and vague, that one who 
has to rely upon them, without having seen authentic specimens, is driven 
to the necessity, in a good degree, of guessing at the genus to which a new 
species may belong. Of the two genera, to one of which the insect de- 
scribed below may belong, viz., Zophonotus and Heribeza, it seems to me 
that the latter is most probably the one in which it should be placed. 
“Palpi short, slightly elongate,” is indefinite enough, and so is “hind wings 
somewhat linear triangular,’ and “more or less distinct, oblique, silvery- 
white, streaks or spots at the tip of the fore-wings,” is not at all applicable 
to this species. Nevertheless, rather than encumber the science with a 
new name, which might be worse than useless, I have concluded to place 
it in Heribeia, with the following notes of its structural peculiarities :-— 
