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speckled upon a white or yellow ground. The larvae dwell in stony places, and many of 

 them teed upon the lichens that grow on the stones : some feed upon grass. 



Deiopeia bella. Beautiful Deiopeia. ( Plate xlvi, fig. 5.) 



Color of the forewings yellow, traversed by five or six white bands : hands dotted in row 



witli black. Posterior wings scarlet, though pale, and bordered irregularly with dusky 



black or dark brown. Body white : thorax spotted with black. Expanse of wing, 



nearly 2 inches, or If inch. 



It is found in Albany county in midsummer. " 



Arctiidae. 



The feelers and tongue mostly short and thick. Antennae doubly feathered : feathering 

 narrow on the inner or upper side, and less distinct in females. Wings inclined : thorax 

 thick. Both the caterpillars and moths hairy or downy, especially the thorax and head of 

 the moths. They are more or less white, and ornamented with black or dark-colored spots 

 upon a white or buft-colored ground. They are nocturnal, or fly only by night. 



The caterpillars move rapidly, and are covered with hairs that spread out in tufts from 

 warts. They make, in clefts of rocks and sheltered places, rough cocoons of the hair of 

 their own bodies, interwoven with some fibres of silk. The chrysalis is smooth, and its 

 joints movable. 



Spilosoma acrjea. Saltmarsh Caterpillar. ( Plate xli, figs. 2 - 5.) 



Spilosojia (Stephens). Phal^ena ( Bombtx) ACREA ( Drury). Bombyx acria ( Fabricius). 



Arctia pseuiierminea (Peck). 



Male, upper side : Head and thorax white on the upper side ; lower side yellow buff", 

 embracing the wings, abdomen and thorax. Forewings cream-colored, marked and 

 margined with many black spots : hindwings buff, and marked with six somewhat 

 angular spots ; the lower side is deeper colored. Antennas and eyes black. 



Male, lower side, buff-colored. Forewings margined with five or six elongate black spots, 



the posterior margin dotted with black : the other black spots upon the disc show 



through the wing, and appear to belong to the upper side. Hindwings marked with 



seven or eight spots somewhat lunate in form; one of which is quite prominently so, 



near the middle and outer margin of the wing, but stands in reverse position to one 



upon the margin. Abdomen of a buff upon the upper and inferior sides ; the sides 



being marked with a white line, which also extends to the tip of the abdomen : upper 



side ornamented with a row of black spots, and two rows that stand upon the margin 



of the white lateral line, and another line upon the lower and central part or face of 



the abdomen. 



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