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CUT-WOnUS. IIOTU OP the striped worm DESCnlBED. 



separated by two pale ones, whereof the lower one is broader; often a some- 

 what giavicons white stripe below the lower dark one, and all the underside 

 below this dull white. This is the best concise general description of the 

 worm that I am able to give, the characters stated being sornctinies quite 

 faint, but in most instances sufficiently plain and distinct. I proceed to 

 give a more full description of the several parts. Thc.head is shining black, 

 with a white stripe in the middle, which stripe is forked, resembling an 

 inverted letter Y. The nose piece and upper lip are whitish, the former 

 being wrinkled or longitudinally striated, and the latter having a trans- 

 verse row of white bristles. The jaws are black and four- toothed. Ou 

 each side is usually a white spot, and in other instances the whole head is 

 more or less mottled with white, or is throughout of a tarnished white color 

 with only a dusty streak on each side of its base. The neck above is of 

 the same shining black color and horny substance as the head, with a white 

 stripe in the middle, continuous witii that upon the head, and a stripe on 

 each side, curving slightly outward at its hind end. The sides of the neck 

 are dull white, with a short double blackish stripe across the middle. The 

 back is ash gray, this color forming a stripe along each side of the middle, 

 where are two dusky lines, and between them a whitish line of the same 

 thickness. The sides are dark gray or of the same dusky shade as the two 

 lines on the middle of the back, this color being divided into throe stripes 

 of equal width by two faint pale lines, the lower one broader and formed 

 of spots mottling the surface. These pale lines sometimes take on a glau- 

 cous white appearance, and sometimes adjoining the lower dusky stripe on 

 its underside is a third glaucous white stripe, which is broader than those 

 above it, and along its lower edge are the breathing pores, forming a row 

 of oval coal black dots. The underside, including all below the breathing 

 pores, is dull whitish, the legs being varied with smoky brown, and the 

 pro-legs having a ring of this color at their base. 



The Moth is represented, plate 4, figure 2, with its wings spread, and 

 figure 3 as we usually see it when at rest and with its wings closed. It 

 measures 0.70 in length and 1.30 across its extended wings, and is of an ash 

 or dusky gray color, and distinguished principally by two coal black spots, 

 one nearly square, placed outside of the centre of the fore wings, and the other 

 nearly triangular, a little forward of it, a roundish nearly white spot sep- 

 arating them. Its head is gray, and its palpi or feelers are blackish upon 

 their outer side. These organs are held obliquely forward and upward and 

 are densely covered with erect hairy scales, giving them a short, thick 

 outline of a compressed cylindrical form, and cut oif transversely at their 

 ends, with a small nak(!d joint protruding therefrom, little longer than 

 thick, and scarcely a third of the thickness of the joint from which it pro- 

 jects. Coiled up between the palpi and slightly visible on their underside 

 is the long spiral tongue or trunk. The antennae are slender, thread-like, 

 but tapering towards their tips. They are simple in the females, and in 

 the male are toothed like a saw along their opposite sides, the teeth being 

 sharp and fringed with minute hairs at their tips. The thorax is the thickest 

 part of the body and is of a square form, as is very evident when the 



