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The flight and habits of this moth are much the same as those of the S. acrcea, which it 

 also resembles in figure, but is smaller. The caterpillar is brown, with five pale longitudi- 

 nal lines, and covered with long hairs growing from fulvous tubercles : it feeds upon 

 plantain, leaves of Indian corn, peas, etc,, 'and is frequently quite injurious. 



The moth appears in the vicinity of Albany, and in Western Massachusetts, in June ; 

 perhaps earlier. While they are said to be occasionally injurious to corn in the Southern 

 States, the insect is too rare here to give rise to much apprehension. 



Euchjetes egle. (Plate xli, fig. 11.) 



Phal.ena egle ( Drury). Spilosoma egle ( Westwood). Euch^etes* ( Harris). 

 Antennae slightly pectinated. Head, thorax, underside of the body, and legs gray. Wings 

 thin, bluish gray, paler on the front edge, immature. Neck cream-colored : top of the 

 abdomen indian yellow, aud marked with three rows of black spots, one on the top 

 and two on the sides, each row consisting of about sev-en spots. Under side : Tongue 

 spiral, a little longer than the head : abdomen pale yellow : wings gray; margins 

 entire. 

 Caterpillar : Head, body and legs black, and marked with a light-colored line on each 

 side, hairy ; hairs grow in short tufts from warts. The first and second rings support 

 four long pencils or tufts, which bend over the head. 

 The caterpillars feed upon the milkweed (Jlsclcpias syriaca), and may be regarded as 

 harmless : they are social, and, when feeding, their heads are turned to the edge of the 

 leaf. 



Callimorpha virguncula ( Kirby). ( Plate xlyii, fig. 5.) 



Color black. Head and thorax striped with black and orange. Forewings, ramifications of 

 the nervures orange. : hindwings orange marked with black, roundish. Abdomen 

 orange above, marked along the middle with triangular black spots : beneath paler. 

 Lateral portions of the abdominal rings marked by a double row of angular spots 

 placed close together : venter pale orange. Expansion of wing, 1 J inch. 

 This is a common species in the vicinity of Albany : found in meadows in August. 

 Figured in Richardson's Fauna Borcali Americana. 



Callimorpha parthenice. ( Plate xlvii, fig. ti.) 



Body beneath black. Head and thorax pale orange, marked with five oblong spots, two 

 before and three behind. Forewings black and orange : the orange follows mostly the 

 nerves, but transverse bands are sent off so as to form many triangular spots. Hind- 

 wings red, marl'.ed with large black patches surrounded by narrow luteous rings ; 

 beneath paler and more dusky. Beneath, the rings of the abdomen are black, and the 



• Edou^eijbs, meaning fine flowing mane; a Baaie applicable to caterpillars. 



