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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  New 
  York 
  species 
  of 
  Urocerus 
  and 
  table 
  for 
  their 
  separation 
  

  

  In 
  addition 
  to 
  the 
  two 
  forms 
  herein 
  discussed, 
  the 
  following 
  species 
  a 
  

   Urocerus 
  have 
  been 
  recorded 
  from 
  this 
  state 
  : 
  U. 
  edwardsii, 
  U. 
  zonatus 
  

   U. 
  cyaneus, 
  U. 
  nigricornis, 
  U. 
  abdominalis 
  and 
  U. 
  flavicornis. 
  I 
  have 
  

   also 
  taken 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  U. 
  tricolor 
  Prov. 
  at 
  Schoharie, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  table 
  of 
  species, 
  adapted 
  from 
  Norton, 
  is 
  given 
  as 
  an 
  

   aid 
  in 
  naming 
  our 
  New 
  York 
  species 
  : 
  

  

  1 
  Antennae 
  of 
  one 
  color, 
  apical 
  horn 
  of 
  female 
  trian- 
  

  

  gular, 
  not 
  spear-shaped 
  

   Legs 
  and 
  abdomen 
  black 
  edwardsii 
  BruUe 
  

  

  Legs 
  and 
  abdomen 
  yellow-banded 
  zonatus 
  Norton 
  

  

  Legs 
  rufous, 
  abdomen 
  blue 
  cyaueus 
  Fabr. 
  

  

  Legs 
  rufous, 
  abdomen 
  banded 
  nigricornis 
  Fabr. 
  

  

  2 
  Antennae 
  banded 
  with 
  white 
  or 
  yellow, 
  apical 
  horn 
  

  

  spear-shaped 
  

  

  Base 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  tibiae 
  yellow, 
  third 
  and 
  fourth 
  ab- 
  

   dominal 
  segments 
  purple-brown 
  „ 
  tricolor 
  Prov. 
  

  

  Base 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  tibiae 
  yellow 
  albicornis 
  Fabr. 
  

  

  Base 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  tibiae 
  yellow, 
  abdomen 
  yellow-red 
  

  

  (possibly 
  the 
  male 
  of 
  albicornis) 
  abdominalis 
  Harris 
  

  

  Base 
  of 
  hinder 
  tibiae 
  yellow 
  cressoni 
  Norton 
  

  

  All 
  the 
  tibiae 
  and 
  tarsi 
  yellow 
  davicornis 
  Fabr. 
  

  

  Eacles 
  imperialis 
  Drury 
  

   Imperial 
  moth 
  

  

  Ord. 
  Lepidoptera 
  : 
  Fam. 
  Bombycidae 
  

  

  Drury, 
  Drew. 
  Illustrations 
  of 
  exotic 
  entomology. 
  1773. 
  1-17 
  

   pi. 
  9. 
  fig. 
  I, 
  2 
  (described 
  as 
  Atiacus). 
  

  

  Smith, 
  J. 
  E 
  & 
  Abbot, 
  John. 
  Natural 
  history 
  of 
  the 
  rarer 
  lepi- 
  

   dopterous 
  insects 
  of 
  Georgia. 
  1797- 
  2:109, 
  pi. 
  55 
  (as 
  Phalaefia 
  

   imperatoria). 
  

  

  Palisot 
  de 
  Beauvois, 
  A. 
  M. 
  F. 
  J. 
  Insectes 
  recueillis 
  en 
  Afrique 
  

   et 
  en 
  Amerique 
  dans 
  les 
  royaumes 
  d'Oware. 
  1805. 
  p. 
  52, 
  pi. 
  20 
  (as 
  

   Bombyx 
  didy7?ia). 
  

  

  Fitch, 
  Asa. 
  Insects 
  of 
  New 
  York. 
  4th 
  Rep't. 
  1858. 
  p. 
  56-57 
  

   (larva 
  described, 
  as 
  Ceratocampa) 
  ; 
  the 
  same 
  in 
  N. 
  Y. 
  State 
  agricultural 
  

   society. 
  Transactions. 
  1857. 
  1858. 
  p. 
  74.2-4.3 
  

  

  Harris, 
  T. 
  W. 
  Insects 
  injurious 
  to 
  vegetation. 
  3d 
  ed. 
  1862. 
  

   p. 
  402-5, 
  fig. 
  196, 
  197 
  (brief 
  account, 
  as 
  Dryocampa). 
  

  

  