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dried wliile being bronglit to me, deserted tlie twig for one of choke- 

 clierrj standing near it, on which they continued to feed. 



In the Entomological Correspondence of Harris, clover, ehn, oak, 

 and bahn of Gilead are given as food-phints of the larva. 



I retain for this moth the specific name by which it has long been 

 known, instead of adopting the one proposed for it by Walker {varia) 

 and adopted by Packard in his ^' Synopsis of the Bombycidse of the 

 United States," in which he remarks that " our species has been 

 confounded by authors with Cramer's species lo : judging by 

 Cramer's plate his ^lo ' from South America, belongs to a different 

 genus." Dr. Speyer, the eminent German lepidopterist, has critic- 

 ally examined a number of specimens of the moth sent to him, and 

 lias found that it was correctly described under the name of To, by 

 Fabricius, in Syst Ent. 1775, p. 560, and its habitat given as Il^orth 

 America. 



