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ment. On the hinder part of the 3d abdominal segment is a large 
double dorsal dark knob-like hump. On the 6th is a conspicu- 
ous dark transverse rounded ridge, enlarged and higher at each 
end. The 8th segment has large warts, and there are also large 
warts on the sides of segments 7-10. The supra-anal plate is 
triangular but short, with four hair-bearing warts above and four 
at the end. Anal legs large and broad. - The short penultimate 
segment has a transverse row of eight large warts; these warts 
are obsolete on the front half of the body. 
The body is of exactly the color of an oak twig, being dark 
gray shaded with light, and of the same color beneath as above; 
while the knotted appearance of the segments behind the head 
and in the middle of the body assist in the deception, the cater- 
pillar being remarkably like a bit of oak twig. The anal conical 
` dorsal tubercles are large and distinct. 
ct. 10 it began to spin a thin slight web at the bottom of the 
May. i 
Paraphia deplanaria.—The caterpillar of this moth was found 
at Brunswick, Me., June 23d, on the fir. The body is cylindri- 
cal with no tubercles, and in color and appearance like a bit of 
caterpillar found on the hemlock at Brunswick, Maine, Aug. 25. 
Head flattened, square in front but not notched, slightly full on 
each side of a slight median impressed line. Pale gray, with a 
diffuse straight vertical band on each side, the middle being clear 
whitish gray. These dark latero-frontal bands and the pale gray 
cle; 
above tawny-brown. On the rst and 2d abdominal segments 1s 
a pair of swollen infra-spiracular rounded tubercles, concolorous 
with the body. The body is dull reddish-brown. The two pilif- 
erous warts are connected and converted into a transverse tuber- 
cle, becoming larger towards the 5th abdominal segment; the 
